The Affairs of Maupassant

The Affairs of Maupassant is a 1935 Austrian-Italian drama film production. The German title is Das Tagebuch der Geliebten and the Italian title is Il diario di una donna amata, which means "the diary of a woman in love". An historical romance, it was directed by Henry Koster under his original name of Hermann Kosterlitz and starred Isa Miranda as the Ukrainian artist and diarist Marie Bashkirtseff and Hans Jaray as the French writer Guy de Maupassant. It was loosely based on Bashkirtseff's diaries, in which she records her studies in Paris to become an artist towards the end of the 19th century, and possibly on her correspondence with Maupassant, which she had begun under an assumed name. The film focuses on a feud between Maupassant and one of Bashkirtseff's teachers that leads to a nascent (and highly fictionalized) romance between Bashkirtseff and Maupassant. The romance is cut short in the film by Bashkirtseff's early death from tuberculosis. The film was made just before Koster moved to the United States to join Universal Studios. It was filmed in Vienna.

The Affairs of Maupassant
Directed by	Henry Koster
Written by	Corrado Alvaro (Italian screenplay) Marie Bashkirtseff (book) Felix Jackson (story; as Felix Joachimson) Henry Koster (screenplay; as Hermann Kosterlitz) Fritz Rotter (story)
Starring	Isa Miranda Hans Jaray
Cinematography	Willy Goldberger, Hans Heinz Theyer, Zoltan Vidor
Edited by	Willy Zeunert, Ladislaus Vidor
Music by	Paul Abraham
Release date	1935 (1935)
Running time	77 minutes
Languages	Italian German

Cast (Italian version)

• Isa Miranda as Marie Bashkirtseff
• Hans Jaray as Guy de Maupassant
• Ennio Cerlesi as Bassieux
• Loris Gizzi as Dr. Walitzky
• Gemma Bolognesi as Marie's Mothera

Cast (Austrian version)

• Lili Darvas as Marie Bashkirtseff
• Hans Jaray as Guy de Maupassant
• Attila Hörbiger as Bassieux
• S.Z. Sakall as Dr. Walitzky (as Szöke Szakall)
• Anna Kallina as Marie's Mother

External links

• The Affairs of Maupassant at IMDb