''Katia'' is a 1938 French historical

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starring

Danielle Darrieux Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux (; 1 May 1917 – 17 October 2017) was a French actress of stage, television and film, as well as a singer and dancer. Beginning in 1931, she appeared in more than 110 films. She was one of France's g ...

. The movie was directed by Maurice Tourneur, based on novel ''Princesse Mathe Bibesco'' by Marthe Bibesco under the

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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 Romy Schneider (; born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach; 23 September 1938 – 29 May 1982) was a German-French actress. She began her career in the German genre in the early 1950s when she was 15. From 1955 to 1957, she played the central chara ...

Cast

as Katia Dolgoroukov * John Loder as Le tsar Alexandre II *Marie-Hélène Dasté as La Tsarine *

Aimé Clariond Aimé Clariond (10 May 1894 – 31 December 1959) was a French stage and film actor. Clariond was born in Périgueux, Dordogne, France and died in Paris. Selected filmography * ''The Brothers Karamazov'' (1931) - Ivan Karamazoff * '' Amourous ...

as Le Comte Schouwaloff * Thérèse Dorny as La baronne

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* * * 1938 films French historical romance films French black-and-white films 1930s historical romance films 1938 romantic drama films Films set in Russia Films set in the 1860s Films set in the 1870s Films set in the 1880s French romantic drama films 1930s French-language films 1930s French films {{1930s-romantic-drama-film-stub