Stamboul (film)

Stamboul

Directed by	Dimitri Buchowetzki
Written by	Heinz Goldberg Harry Kahn Henry Koster Reginald Denham
Based on	Stamboul 1922 novel 1931 play by Claude Farrère (novel) Pierre Frondaie (play)
Produced by	Walter Morosco
Starring	Warwick Ward Rosita Moreno Margot Grahame
Music by	Percival Mackey
Production company	Paramount British Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount British Pictures
Release date	28 March 1932
Running time	75 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Stamboul is a 1932 British drama film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki and starring Warwick Ward, Rosita Moreno, Margot Grahame, and Garry Marsh. It was shot at the Elstree Studios outside London. It was released by the British division of Paramount Pictures. The film's sets were designed by the art director Heinrich Richter, Hermann Warm and R. Holmes Paul. The film is based on the novel L'homme qui assasina (1906) by Claude Farrère and on a play by Pierre Frondaie. Buchowetski also co-directed El hombre que asesino with Fernando Gomis, the Spanish-language version of the film, also released by Paramount.^[1]

Premise

In the lead-up to the First World War, a French military attaché falls in love with the wife of a prominent German in Stamboul (the central part of Constantinople, now known in entirety as Istanbul) in the Ottoman Empire.