Stamboul (film)
Appearance
Stamboul (1931) is a British drama film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki and starring Warwick Ward, Rosita Moreno, Margot Grahame, and Garry Marsh, and released by the British division of Paramount Pictures. Buchowetski also co-directed El hombre que asesino with Fernando Gomis, the Spanish-language version of the film, also released by Paramount.[1]
The film is based on the novel L'homme qui assasina (1906) by Claude Farrere and on a play by Pierre Frondaie.
Plot
In the lead-up to the First World War, a French military attaché falls in love with the wife of a prominent German in Stamboul in the Ottoman Empire.
Cast
- Warwick Ward ... Col André de Sevigne
- Rosita Moreno ... Baroness von Strick
- Margot Grahame ... Countess Elsa Talven
- Henry Hewitt ... Baron von Strick
- Garry Marsh ... Prince Cernuwitz
- Alan Napier ... Bouchier
- Abraham Sofaer ... Mahmed Pasha
- Stella Arbenina ... Mme. Bouchier
- Annie Esmond ... Nurse
- Eric Pavitt ... Franz