It is 1904 - the eve of the Russian-Japanese war. The Russian naval officer Boris Ranevský marries the Japanese girl Youki. News of Youki's wedding angers her brother Iva Moura who is head of intelligence in Port Arthur. After the war breaks out he then persuades his sister to work with him. Youki refuses but she does not tell her husband about their conversation. When her meeting with her brother is discovered, she finds herself suspected of espionage. With the help of Youki's maid, Iva steals Russian war plans from Boris's safe. He is captured and, during the interrogation, tells them that his sister helped him. Youki is arrested and is to be executed. She is saved by the capitulation of the Russian general Stössel, the executions are suspended and Youki is released. The girl is desparate to find Boris whom she finally tracks down on the deck of a torpedo destroyer. Boris is entrusted to take some Russian flags to safety, however, he is unable to break through the ring surrounding them and therefore orders the boat to be sunk. Death awaits him in the officer's cabin, together with Youki whose love and devotion finally convinces him of her innocence.
The negative KDN-A and copy KK-N (only 3rd, 4th, 7th and 8th part) are preserved in the Archives du film du C. N. C., Bois d'Arcy. KDN-A 2367,0 m and KK-A are preserved in the Gosfilmofond of Russia, Belye Stolby. This co-production, whose main capital share was ensured by the Czech producer, was filmed in Czechoslovakia in its German and French versions only. The French première was held already on the 10th of December 1936 in Paris in cinema Marignon.
poručík Boris Ranevský
Youki, Borisova žena
šéf japonské špionáže Iva Moura
ruský velitel Vosidlov
kapitán Novitzki
generál Stössel
Nicolas Farkas, Pierre O'Connell (francouzská dialogová režie)
Pierre Frondaie (Port-Arthur – román)
Henri Decoin, Nicolas Farkas, Arnold Lipp, Steve Passeur
Georg Krause, Otto Heller, Jan Stallich, Karel Degl, Ferdinand Pečenka, Jaroslav Tuzar
Bohumil Heš, Štěpán Kopecký, Wladimir Meingard, Alexander Loschakoff
J. A. Holman, Pierre O'Connell
Willy Ströminger (fotograf)
Orchestr F.O.K. (Music Conducted by Otakar Jeremiáš)
Port Arthur [francouzská verze]
Port Arthur [francouzská verze]
Port Arthur [French version]
Port-Arthur
film
featuretheatrical distribution
melodrama
Czechoslovakia, France
1936
1936
start of filming 20 July 1936
end of filming 30 November 1936
date of censorship 01/1937
withdrawal from distribution 1 June 1940
premiere abroad 10 December 1936 (kino Marignon, Paříž, Francie)
premiere 22 January 1937 /unsuitable for youths/ (kino Juliš /1 týden/, Praha)
feature film
88 min
2 500 meters
35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
Tobis – Klang
French
French
Czech
French
