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 The Spaniard
as The day guard
as The sergeant
as James
as Manuel
as The night guard
as Shepherd (uncredited)
as Trucker (uncredited)