Nights of Princes (1938)

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

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.

melancholicelegiacslow-pacedromantictragicatmosphericnostalgicformal

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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