Stamboul (film)

1932 film
  • 28 March 1932 (1932-03-28)
Running time
75 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglish

Stamboul is a 1932 British drama film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki and starring Warwick Ward, Rosita Moreno, Margot Grahame, and Garry Marsh. It was shot at the Elstree Studios outside London. It was released by the British division of Paramount Pictures. The film's sets were designed by the art director Heinrich Richter, Hermann Warm and R. Holmes Paul. The film is based on the novel L'homme qui assasina (1906) by Claude Farrère and on a play by Pierre Frondaie. Buchowetski also co-directed El hombre que asesino with Fernando Gomis, the Spanish-language version of the film, also released by Paramount.[1]

Premise

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 (the central part of Constantinople, now known in entirety as Istanbul) in the Ottoman Empire.

Cast

See also

References

  1. ^ BFI Database entry
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