The Battle

The Battle

HE COMMANDED HER TO LOVE ANOTHER MAN!

NR 1934 · 83 min · ★ 4.3 · War, Drama, Romance

In 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War, a Japanese naval officer allows his wife to be seduced by a British naval attaché in order to gain access to a secret report he has written, unaware her marital unhappiness has made her vulnerable to falling in love with him. Adapted from a novel by Claude Farrère, and also filmed in a French-language version, LA BATAILLE., q.v.

Directed by Nicolas Farkas · Written by Bernard Zimmer

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Charles Boyer Captain Yorisaka
Merle Oberon Mitsuko Yorisaka
John Loder Commander Fergan
Betty Stockfeld Betty Hockley
Valéry Inkijinoff Hirata Takamuri
Miles Mander Felze
Henri Fabert The Admiral

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