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Nights of Princes (1930)

Nights of Princes poster
Original title
Nuits de princes
Directed by
Marcel L'Herbier
Genre
silent film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 49m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A prince living in exile among a community of Russian emigres in Paris gets drawn into their dramas and loves. It is about memory, loss, and the pull between past and present.

melancholicatmosphericslow-burnnostalgicromanticquietintrospectiveglamorous

What happens

Nights of Princes (French: Nuits de princes) is a 1930 French drama film directed by Marcel L'Herbier and starring Gina Manès, Jaque Catelain and Harry Nestor. It is an adaptation of the 1927 novel of the same title by Joseph Kessel. The story was remade as a 1938 film directed by Vladimir Strizhevsky. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Serge Piménoff and Pierre Schild. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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