Movielogr
Zita (1968)
Directed by Robert Enrico
Overview
Because “Tante Zita” main theme is death: a twenty-year old girl, Annie (Shimkus) lives with her mother and her aunt (both played by first-class actresses Suzanne Flon and Katina Paxinou). The auntie is dying, and for the first time in her life, Annie has to cope with death. One night, she finds it too hard to bear, and leaving home where the old woman is suffering, she begins to hang around in Paris. She will meet people, and, from dusk to dawn, she will learn to leave her childhood behind and to grow into a woman.
Length 105 minutes
Actors
Joanna Shimkus | Katina Paxinou | Bernard Fresson | Josep Maria Flotats | Roger Ibanez | Odette Piquet | Jacques Rispal | Paul Pavel | Med Hondo | Jean-Gabriel Nordmann | Claude Lévêque | Bernard Klein | Corinne Armand | Solange Certain | Jean Darie | Lydie Murguet | Marie Pascale Daveau | Paul Crauchet | Suzanne Flon | Bernard Faran | Carlo Nell