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Because "Tante Zita" main theme is death: a twenty-year old girl, Annie (Shimkus) lives with her mother and her aunt (both played by first-class actresses Suzanne Flon and Katina Paxinou). The auntie is dying, and for the first time in her life, Annie has to cope with death. One night, she finds it too hard to bear, and leaving home where the old woman is suffering, she begins to hang around in Paris. She will meet people, and, from dusk to dawn, she will learn to leave her childhood behind and to grow into a woman.Read moreLess
Because "Tante Zita" main theme is death: a twenty-year old girl, Annie (Shimkus) lives with her mother and her aunt (both played by first-class actresses Suzanne Flon and Katina Paxinou). The auntie is dying, and for the first time in her life, Annie has to cope with death. One night, she finds it too hard to bear, and leaving home where the old woman is suffering, she begins to hang around in Paris. She will meet people, and, from dusk to dawn, she will learn to leave her childhood behind and to grow into a woman.
The story
Because "Tante Zita" main theme is death: a twenty-year old girl, Annie (Shimkus) lives with her mother and her aunt (both played by first-class actresses Suzanne Flon and Katina Paxinou). The auntie is dying, and for the first time in her life, Annie has to cope with death. One night, she finds it too hard to bear, and leaving home where the old woman is suffering, she begins to hang around in Paris. She will meet people, and, from dusk to dawn, she will learn to leave her childhood behind and to grow into a woman.
Cast & crew
Joanna ShimkusAnnie
Katina PaxinouAunt Zita
Suzanne FlonYvette
Paul CrauchetDr. Bernard
Bernard FressonBoniface
Josep Maria FlotatsSimon
Roger IbáñezSpaniard
Odette PiquetDay guard
Jacques RispalSergeant
Paul PavelCast
Med HondoJames
Jean-Gabriel NordmannManuelExplore the crew
- Director
- Robert Enrico
- Screenplay
- Lucienne Hamon
- Original Music Composer
- François de Roubaix
- Screenplay
- Robert Enrico
- Screenplay
- Pierre Pelegri
- Editor
- Michel Lewin
- Director of Photography
- Jean Boffety