Tovaritch is a 1935 French comedy film directed by Jacques Deval and Germain Fried, along with the uncredited Jean Tarride and Victor Trivas, and starring Irène Zilahy, André Lefaur and Marguerite Deval.
In 1937 the play was adapted again into the Hollywood film Tovarich featuring Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer.
[1] In 1930s Paris two exiled and apparently impoverished White Russian aristocrats General Ouratieff and his wife Tatiana take jobs as domestic servants.
Unknown to their new employers, the General has a billions of Francs deposited in the bank which was entrusted to him for safekeeping by the late Tsar during the 1917 Revolution and which he consequently refuses to touch.
Things become more complex when the Soviet Commisar Gorotchenko arrives on the scene in pursuit of the money.