Sables is a 1927 French silent film directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff and starring Colette Darfeuil, Gina Manès and Nadia Sibirskaïa.
[1] Richard Abel, in his history of French cinema of this period, positions Sables firmly in a wave of films made at this time in the exotic locations of North Africa and the French colonies.
Sables fits into this pattern with a melodramatic plot that uses the Tunisian desert as its background adding mystery and the unknown.
The cast included the director's wife at the time, Nadia Sibirskaïa, who played a similar role for him in Menilmontant.
Kirsanoff had no illusions about what he had made: he described the film as "Terrible, childish, stupid, merely amusing…an imbecile wrote the story".