''Student's Hotel'' (french: Hôtel des étudiants) is a 1932 French

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directed by

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and starring Lisette Lanvin,

Raymond Galle Raymond Galle (1913–2003) was a French stage and film actor.Klossner p.49 Selected filmography * '' His Highness Love'' (1931) * '' The Dream'' (1931) * '' Bad Seed'' (1934) * '' Student's Hotel'' (1932) * '' The Lie of Nina Petrovna'' (1937) * ...

and

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. The film's sets were designed by the art director Edouard Nikitine. It was screened at the inaugural

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in 1932.''French Cinema—A Critical Filmography'' p.299

Synopsis

Odette, a student at the

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is courted by two fellow students. She goes out with the charming Jacques and falls pregnant by him. Her rejected suitor, Maxime, still offers to marry her. Jacques, when he discovers her true situation steps in to propose himself.

Cast

* Lisette Lanvin as Odette *

as Maxime *

as Jacques * Yvonne Yma as Madame Sabatier *

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as Une étudiante * Sylvette Fillacier as Thérèse * Robert Lepers as Imac *

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as Étienne * Dimitri Dragomir as Tristan * Georges Adet * Jeanne Boyer *

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* Jacqueline Made * Bob Maix * Odette Olga

References

Bibliography

* Crisp, Colin. ''French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 1, 1929–1939''. Indiana University Press, 2015. * Crisp, Colin. ''Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939''. Indiana University Press, 2002.

External links

* 1932 comedy-drama films French comedy-drama films 1932 films 1930s French-language films Films directed by Victor Tourjansky French black-and-white films 1930s French films Films set in Paris {{1930s-France-film-stub