Stamboul (film)

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 que 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

References

↑ BFI Database entry

External links

Stamboul at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Dimitri Buchowetzki

Anita Jo (1919)
Symphonie des Todes (1921)
Der Galiläer (1921)
The Brothers Karamazov (1921)
Die letzte Stunde (1921)
Danton (1921)
The Experiment of Professor Mithrany (1921)
Sappho (1921)
Die Gräfin von Paris (1922)
Othello (1922)
Peter the Great (1922)
Das Laster des Spiels (1923)
Carousel (1923)
Men (1924)
Lily of the Dust (1924)
The Swan (1925)
Graustark (1925)
The Crown of Lies (1926)
The Midnight Sun (1926)
Valencia (1926)
Stamboul (1931)
Magie moderne (1931)
Woman in the Jungle (1931)
Le réquisitoire (1931)
Die Nacht der Entscheidung (1931)
De Sensatie van de Toekomst (1931)
El hombre que asesinó (1932)