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.
Joanna Shimkus
Katina Paxinou
Suzanne Flon
Paul Crauchet
Bernard Fresson
Josep Maria Flotats
Roger Ibáñez
Odette Piquet
Jacques Rispal
Paul Pavel
Med Hondo
Jean-Gabriel Nordmann
Claude Lévèque
Bernard Klein
Corinne Armand
Solange Certain
Jean Darie
Lydie Murguet
Marie Pascale Daveau
Paul Crauchet
Suzanne Flon
Bernard Faran
Carlo Nell