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Nights of Princes (1938)

Nights of Princes poster
Original title
Nuits de princes
Directed by
Vladimir Strizhevsky
Genre
drama film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 32m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A drama about exiled Russian aristocrats living in Paris during the 1930s. The story follows their struggles with loss of status and longing for a past world.

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What happens

Nights of Princes (French: Nuits de princes) is a 1938 French-German drama film directed by Vladimir Strizhevsky and starring Käthe von Nagy, Marina Koshetz and Jean Murat. It is based on a 1927 novel of the same title by Joseph Kessel. An earlier adaptation Nights of Princes had been made by Marcel L'Herbier in 1930. It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alexandre Lochakoff and Vladimir Meingard. A separate German-language version After Midnight was also produced. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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