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Heart of the Casbah

7.0 96 mins Drama   Romance   Crime   1952
Director(s): Pierre Cardinal

Maria-Pilar is the new wife of an Algerian gangster whom the police have just arrested. The son of a first marriage arrives in Algiers from which he has remained far away for a long time. His stepmother, charmed by the teenager, gradually experiences a devouring passion, against which Michel tries in vain to fight: he loves a young girl, Sylvie. Mad with jealousy, his stepmother singles him out for his father's vengeance by distorting the truth. Michel does not escape his father's fury, but when the woman's deception becomes known, Maria-Pilar is strangled to death.

Casts of Heart of the Casbah

Viviane Romance

as Maria Pilar

Claude Laydu

as Michel

Philippe Richard

as 'Gros Polo'

Sylvie Pelayo

as Sylvie

Roger Gaillard

as Michel's father

Simone Moussia

as Yasmine

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