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Les amours de minuit (1931)

Les amours de minuit poster
Original title
Les Amours de minuit
Directed by
Augusto Genina, Carl Froelich, Marc Allégret
Genre
drama film
Country
Germany, France
Runtime
1h 49m
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A love story unfolds against a backdrop of crime and danger in 1930s Paris. The film follows a couple caught in a web of illicit activity and longing.

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What happens

The Lovers of Midnight (French: Les amours de minuit) is a 1931 French-German crime drama film directed by Augusto Genina and Marc Allégret and starring Danièle Parola, Pierre Batcheff and Josseline Gaël. It is a Multiple-language version with a separate German-language version, Mitternachtsliebe, also produced. It was the first sound film to be made at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. It was remade as the 1943 film Voyage Without Hope during the Occupation period. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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