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The Battle

The Battle

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 11, 1934

Runtime

1h 23m

Genres

War, Drama, Romance

User Score

70%

Original Title

The Battle

Production Companies

Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, Liano Films

Director

Nicolas Farkas

Description

The Battle is a 1934 Franco-British co-production English language drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas and Viktor Tourjansky, and starring Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon and John Loder. It was adapted from a novel by Claude Farrère. In 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War, a Japanese naval officer gets his wife to seduce a British atachee in order to gain secrets from him. Things begin to go wrong when she instead falls in love with him.