''Student's Hotel'' () is a 1932 French

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directed by

Viktor Tourjansky Victor Tourjansky ( 4 March 1891 – 13 August 1976), born Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Turzhansky (), was a Russian actor, screenwriter and film director who emigrated after the Russian Revolution (1917), Russian Revolution of 1917. He worked in F ...

and starring

Lisette Lanvin Lisette Lanvin (1913–2004) was a French film actress.Goble p.6 Selected filmography * '' Student's Hotel'' (1932) * '' My Priest Among the Rich'' (1932) * ''Rouletabille the Aviator'' (1932) * ''Youth'' (1933) * '' One Night's Secret'' (1934) * ...

Raymond Galle Raymond Galle (1913–2003) was a French stage actor, stage and film actor.Klossner p.49 Selected filmography * ''His Highness Love'' (1931) * ''The Dream (1931 film), The Dream'' (1931) * ''Coquecigrole'' (1931) * ''Student's Hotel'' (1932) * '' ...

and

Christian Casadesus Christian Casadesus, (26 December 1912 – 6 March 2014), was a French actor and theatre director who worked professionally in both movies and in theater. Career Casadesus was born in Paris on 26 December 1912. His father, Henri Casadesus, ...

. The film's sets were designed by the

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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 to herself.

Cast

as Odette *

as Maxime *

as Jacques *

Yvonne Yma Yvonne Yma (1887–1959) was a French stage and film actress.Phillips p.212 Selected filmography * '' Take Care of Amelie'' (1932) * ''A Father Without Knowing It'' (1932) * '' Student's Hotel'' (1932) * ''Make-Up'' (1932) * ''The Barber of Sevil ...

as Madame Sabatier *

Germaine Roger Germaine Roger (1910–1975) was a French actress and operetta singer.Goble p.18 Selected filmography * ''Tossing Ship'' (1932) * '' Student's Hotel'' (1932) * ''A Weak Woman'' (1933) * ''The Princess's Whim'' (1934) * '' Three Sailors'' (1934 ...

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 * Fanny Lacroix * 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 Films scored by René Sylviano {{1930s-France-film-stub