Morocco

Morocco

Who is this woman who scorns a hundred men...to give her love to a Devil-May-Care Soldier?

NR 1930 · 92 min · ★ 6.5 · Drama, Romance

Mogador, Morocco. Late 1920s. A complex romance develops between a womanizing Legionnaire and a disillusioned Parisian cabaret singer.

Directed by Josef von Sternberg · Written by Benno Vigny

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