Pasha's Wives (1939)
L'Esclave blanche
Mireille, a Frenchwoman, marries a westernized Turkish diplomat and, thinking that she will live a dream life in an Arabian Nights setting, follows him back to his native country, only to discover that, in a staunchly traditional society, she will not be a free woman there any longer.
- Date of release
- 1939-02-18
- TMDB
- 7.3 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- G.W. Pabst, Marc Sorkin
Casting
- Viviane Romance — Mireille, the French wife
- Marcel Dalio — Sultan Soliman
- John Lodge — Vedad Bey, her husband
- Mila Parély — Tarkine
- Saturnin Fabre — Djemal Pacha
- Marcel Lupovici — Mourad
- Roger Blin — Mair
- Louise Carletti — Sheila
- Sylvie — Safèle, the mother
- Paulette Pax — Safète's friend
- Joe Alex — Ali
- Nicolas Amato — Traveler
Interesting facts
The White Slave is a 1939 French drama film directed by Marc Sorkin and starring Viviane Romance, John Lodge and Marcel Dalio. German director Georg Wilhelm Pabst acted as a supervisor on the production. It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Andrej Andrejew and Guy de Gastyne, while the costumes were by Marcel Escoffier. It is a loose remake of the 1927 German silent film of the same title.
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