Film
Pasha's Wives
France- Director
- G.W. Pabst
- Year
- 1939
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.
Top cast
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
Jean Brochard
Chief electrician
Albert Brouett
Advisor
Hugues de Bagratide
Civil servant
Marcel Duhamel
Electrician
Claire Gérard
Visitor
Léon Larive
Civil servant
Directed by
G.W. Pabst, Marc Sorkin
Written by
Lilo Dammert, Léo Lania, Ákos Tolnay