Katia (film)

Katia
Directed byMaurice Tourneur
Written byJean-Jacques Bernard
Jacques Companéez
Produced byLouis d'Hee
StarringDanielle Darrieux
CinematographyRobert Lefebvre
Edited byRoger Mercanton
Music byWal Berg
Production
company
Distributed byCando-Film (1949) (Austria)
Arthur Mayer & Joseph Burstyn (US)
Release dates
  • 7 November 1938 (1938-11-07) (Paris)
  • 22 December 1939 (1939-12-22) (US)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Katia is a 1938 French historical 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 the same title, which starred Romy Schneider.[1]