Yasmina (1927)

Yasmina, a rich Tunisian Princess, daughter of a French lady and a Muslim gentleman, is betrothed by her father to a rich 50-year-old man named Afsen. She reluctantly accepts the marriage but soon becomes ill from boredom and falls in love with the French doctor called from Tunis to take care of her, Hector Grandier, who also happens to be a childhood friend. Her husband finds out and Yasmina sticks a knife in her own bosom in the middle of a fight. The Princess's maid Athima accuses the old husband of attempting to kill the girl and he is sentenced to death. Hector rescues him from his fate and the two lovers are free to love each other in the eyes of the law.