
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.

as Annie

as Aunt Zita

as Yvette

as Dr. Bernard

as Boniface

as Simon

as Spaniard

as Day guard

as Sergeant


as James

as Manuel




as Night guard






as Shepherd (uncredited)

as Trucker (uncredited)