Katia (film)
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Katia is a 1938 French drama film starring Danielle Darrieux
. The movie was directed by Maurice Tourneur
, based on novel "Princesse Mathe Bibesco" by Marthe Bibesco
under the pseudonym Lucile Decaux. It tells the love affair of Russian princess and Czar Alexander II
. It was remade in 1959 with same title, which starred Romy Schneider
.
Danielle Darrieux
Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux is a French actress and singer, who has appeared in more than 110 films since 1931. She is one of France's great movie stars and her eight-decade career is among the longest in film history....
. The movie was directed by Maurice Tourneur
Maurice Tourneur
Maurice Tourneur was an important international film director and screenwriter.-Life:Born Maurice Thomas in the Belleville district of Paris, France, his father was a jeweler. As a young man, Maurice Thomas first trained as a graphic designer and a magazine illustrator but was soon drawn to the...
, based on novel "Princesse Mathe Bibesco" by Marthe Bibesco
Marthe Bibesco
Marthe, Princess Bibesco was a Romanian-French writer of the Belle Époque...
under the pseudonym Lucile Decaux. It tells the love affair of Russian princess and Czar Alexander II
Alexander II of Russia
Alexander II , also known as Alexander the Liberator was the Emperor of the Russian Empire from 3 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881...
. It was remade in 1959 with same title, which starred Romy Schneider
Romy Schneider
Romy Schneider was an Austrian-born German film actress who also held French citizenship.-Early life:Schneider was born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach in Nazi-era Vienna, six months after the Anschluss, into a family of actors that included her paternal grandmother Rosa Albach-Retty, her Austrian...
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Cast
- Danielle DarrieuxDanielle DarrieuxDanielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux is a French actress and singer, who has appeared in more than 110 films since 1931. She is one of France's great movie stars and her eight-decade career is among the longest in film history....
as Katia DolgoroukovCatherine DolgorukovPrincess Ekaterina Mikhailovna Dolgorukova , also known as Catherine Dolgorukova, Catherine Dolgoruki, or Catherine Dolgorukaya, , was the daughter of Prince Michael Dolgorukov and Vera Vishnevskaya... - John LoderJohn Loder (actor)John Loder was a British-American actor. He was born William John Muir Lowe in London.-Early life:Loder's father was General W. H. M. Lowe, the British officer to whom Patrick Pearse, the leader of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland, surrendered...
as Le tsar Alexandre II - Marie-Hélène Dasté as La Tsarine
- Aimé Clariond as Le Comte Schouwaloff
- Thérèse DornyThérèse DornyThérèse Dorny was a French film and theatre actress born in Paris, Ile-de-France, France on 18 September 1891. She died in Saint-Tropez, Var, France on 14 March 1976.-Filmography:* 1930 : La Douceur d'aimer by René Hervil...
as La baronne