La Bataille

La Bataille

83 mins | Drama, Romance, War | May 11, 1934

The Battle is a 1934 Franco-British co-production English language drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas and Viktor Tourjansky, and starring Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon and John Loder. It was adapted from a novel by Claude Farrère. In 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War, a Japanese naval officer gets his wife to seduce a British atachee in order to gain secrets from him. Things begin to go wrong when she instead falls in love with him.

La Bataille

83 mins | Drama, Romance, War | May 11, 1934

La Bataille
The Battle is a 1934 Franco-British co-production English language drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas and Viktor Tourjansky, and starring Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon and John Loder. It was adapted from a novel by Claude Farrère. In 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War, a Japanese naval officer gets his wife to seduce a British atachee in order to gain secrets from him. Things begin to go wrong when she instead falls in love with him.
Producers Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, Liano Films
Original title La Bataille
Directors Nicolas Farkas, Viktor Tourjansky
Writers Claude Farrère, Nicolas Farkas, Bernard Zimmer, Robert Stevenson

Cast

Charles Boyer

as Marquis Yorisaka

Merle Oberon

as Marquise Yorisaka

John Loder

as Fergan

Betty Stockfeld

as Betty Hockley

Valéry Inkijinoff

as Hirata

Miles Mander

as Feize

Henri Fabert

as The Admiral