Overview
Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are always in the presence of princes, dukes and barons. Only when Yvette goes away on a holiday she realizes that the Banker Saval is engaging her mother in such activities, she suddenly feels dirty.
Fun facts
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Setting
Set in Paris
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Music
Music by Hanson Milde-Meissner
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Franz Weihmayr
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Guy de MaupassantStory
- Bernd HofmannScreenplay
- Original title
- Yvette. Die Tochter einer Kurtisane
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 25, 1938
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- Germany
Production
Cast
Käthe DorschOktavia Obardi
Ruth HellbergYvette Obardi
Paul BildtApotheker von Bougival
Pamela WedekindSchwester Euphoria
Johannes RiemannBankier Aristide de Saval- Kurt MikulskiOber in Pariser Café
Albert MatterstockJean Servigny
Hans Adalbert SchlettowFürst Kravalow
Karl FochlerChevalier Valreali
Albert FlorathPfarrer von Bougival
Gustav WaldauMarquis von Bougival- Franz WeberKriegsinvalide Martinez
Leopold von LedeburHaushofmeister- Ellen BangFürstin
- Werner von WulfingHerr von Belvigne
- Elsa Andrä BeyerHausmädchen Suzanne
- Gerda Maria TernoBaronin
- Margot ErbstMarquise
- Lucie PolzinNichette
- Peter BusseBaron
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