Sirocco (1938) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

Release, runtime and language

1938 · 100 mins · French

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Directed by

Pierre Chenal

Starring

Louis Jouvet, Marcel Dalio, Gaston Modot, Fréhel, Pierre Renoir, Pierre Labry

Safia, a disreputable town woman, defies her instincts and falls for Matteo, a beggar‑mystic from Sirocco’s native quarter. She flees to France, becomes the lover then wife of a wealthy archaeologist, and bears his child—Matteo’s, though her husband thinks it his. Years later Matteo reappears, and blackmailers expose Safia’s secret to her husband.