White Nights in Saint Petersburg (1938)
- Original title
- Les Nuits blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg
- Directed by
- Jean Dréville
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Rating
- 4.2 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man and a woman form a complicated bond. The film adapts a Leo Tolstoy novella about jealousy and a troubled marriage.
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What happens
White Nights in Saint Petersburg (French: Les nuits blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg) is a 1938 French drama film directed by Jean Dréville and starring Gaby Morlay, Jean Yonnel and Pierre Renoir. It is an adaptation of the 1889 novella The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy. It is sometimes known by this title, and should not be confused with the 1937 German film The Kreutzer Sonata directed by Veit Harlan. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Lucien Carré, Alexandre Lochakoff and Vladimir Meingard while the costume design was overseen by Boris Bilinsky. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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