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Zita (1968)

Zita (1968)

Drama
Release Date: 1968, January 12
Directors: Robert Enrico
Countries: France
Production: Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie
Cast: Jacques Rispal, Bernard Fresson, Carlo Nell, Suzanne Flon, Paul Crauchet, Jean-Gabriel Nordmann, Roger Ibáñez, Josep Maria Flotats, Solange Certain, Joanna Shimkus, Katina Paxinou, Odette Piquet

Overview:

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.