
Zita
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.
Cast

Joanna Shimkus
Annie

Bernard Fresson
Boniface

Odette Piquet
Day guard

Solange Certain
Night guard

Katina Paxinou
Aunt Zita

Jacques Rispal
Sergeant

Suzanne Flon
Yvette,

Josep Maria Flotats
Simon

Roger Ibáñez
Spaniard

Med Hondo
James

Jean Darie

Paul Crauchet
Dr. Bernard,

Paul Pavel

Jean-Gabriel Nordmann
Manuel

Claude Lévèque

Carlo Nell
Trucker (uncredited)