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Nights Of Princes (1938 Film)
''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.Goble p.258 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. Cast * Käthe von Nagy as Hélène * Marina Koshetz as Marina * Jean Murat as Forestier * Fernand Fabre as Fédor * Pauline Carton as Mademoiselle Mesureux * Pierre Alcover as Rizine * René Lefèvre as Wassili Wronsky * Pierre Larquey Pierre Larquey (10 July 1884 – 17 April 1962) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1913 and 1962. Born in Cénac, Gironde, France, he died in Maisons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Strizhevsky
Vladimir Strizhevsky (1892–1977) was an actor, screenwriter and film director. He was born in the Russian Empire and later emigrated to France and Germany, where he worked for Joseph N. Ermolieff's Films Albatros and collaborated often with other Russian exiles.Nowell-Smith p.164 Selected filmography * ''The House of Mystery (1923 film), The House of Mystery'' (1923) * ''Taras Bulba (1924 film), Taras Bulba'' (1924) * ''The Adjutant of the Czar'' (1929) * ''The Ring of the Empress'' (1930) * ''Troika (1930 film), Troika'' (1930) * ''Sergeant X (1932 film), Sergeant X'' (1932) * ''Crime and Punishment (1935 French film), Crime and Punishment'' (1935) * ''The Volga Boatman (1936 film), The Volga Boatman'' (1936) * ''Nights of Princes (1938 film), Nights of Princes'' (1938) References Bibliography * Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. ''The Oxford History of World Cinema''. Oxford University Press, 1996. External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Strizhevsky, Vladimir 1892 births 1970 deaths Male ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nights Of Princes (1930 Film)
''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. Plot A White Russian woman working as a dancer in a Paris nightclub finds her past returning to haunt her when her husband, an engineer long believed dead in the Russian Civil War, reappears to seek her help. Cast *Gina Manès as Helene Vronsky *Jaque Catelain as Prince Vassia Heridze *Harry Nestor as Prince Fedor Achkeliani *Alice Tissot as Mlle. Mesureux *Dimitri Dimitriev as Anton Irtych *Alexandre Mihalesco as Stéphane *Walia Ostermann as Nathalia Vronsky *Jean Toulout Jean Toulout (28 September 1887 – 23 October 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1938 Films
Events January * January 1 ** The Constitution of Estonia#Third Constitution (de facto 1938–1940, de jure 1938–1992), new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the authoritarian regime. ** state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Safinaz Zulficar, who becomes Farida of Egypt, Queen Farida, in Cairo. * January 27 – The Honeymoon Bridge (Niagara Falls), Honeymoon Bridge at Niagara Falls, New York, collapses as a result of an ice jam. February * February 4 ** Adolf Hitler abolishes the War Ministry and creates the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces), giving him direct control of the German military. In addition, he dismisses political and military leaders considered unsympathetic to his philosophy or policies. Gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Larquey
Pierre Larquey (10 July 1884 – 17 April 1962) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1913 and 1962. Born in Cénac, Gironde, France, he died in Maisons-Laffitte at the age of 77. Selected filmography * ''Patrie'' (1914) * ''Monsieur le directeur'' (1925) * '' Alone'' (1931) - Le comandant * ''Tout s'arrange'' (1931) - Un ami de M. Ribadet * ''American Love'' (1931) - Le maître d'hôtel à la barbiche (uncredited) * ''Le disparu de l'ascenseur'' (1932) - Michaud - le secrétaire * ''Prisonnier de mon coeur'' (1932) * ''Vive la classe'' (1932) - L'adjudant * '' The Miracle Child'' (1932) - Durieux père * ''Le chien jaune'' (1932) - (uncredited) * '' Topaze'' (1933) - Tamise * '' Once Upon a Time'' (1933) - Redno * ''Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine'' (1933) - Le tambour de ville * ' (1933) - Bouzin * ''Madame Bovary'' (1934) - Hippolyte * ''Mariage à responsabilité limitée'' (1934) - Georges Lambert - le mari * ''We Are Not Children'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Lefèvre (actor)
René Lefèvre, born René Paul Louis Lefèvre, (6 March 1898 – 23 May 1991) was a French actor and writer. Throughout his career, he worked with several notable directors, like Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jules Dassin, and René Clair. Career Lefèvre made his debut in the 1920s when he acted in numerous films in small roles. His first film of note was ''Le Million'', directed by René Clair in 1931. He later had the fortune of starring in the title role in ''The Crime of Monsieur Lange'', directed by Jean Renoir. He kept appearing in films until the late 70s, landing a small role in Jean-Pierre Melville's ''Le Doulos'' in 1962. He died in 1991 in Poissy. Partial filmography *1925: '' Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine'' (de René Hervil) - Jean - le voiturier *1927: '' The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans'' (de Julien Duvivier) - Seraphím Meulemeester *1927: ''Fleur d'amour'' (de Marcel Vandal) *1927: ''Le sous-marin de cristal'' (de Marcel Vandal) - Comte de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Alcover
Pierre Alcover (14 March 1893 – 14 November 1957) was a French stage and film actor. He starred in 40 films between 1918 and 1943. In 1920 he starred in the film ''Champi-Tortu''. One of his most notable performances was in Marcel L'Herbier's 1928 film ''L'Argent'', as the corrupt banker Saccard. He was the second husband of the film actress Gabrielle Colonna-Romano, and they are buried together in the cimetière de Rueil-Malmaison. Selected filmography * '' Marion Delorme'' (1918) * '' L'Hirondelle et la Mésange'' (1920) * ''En plongée'' (1926) * ''L'Argent'' (1928) * ''La Petite Lise'' (''Little Lise'') (1930) * '' Le Mariage de Mlle Beulemans'' (''The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans'') (1932) * ''Criminal'' (1933) * ''Deuxième bureau'' (''Second Bureau'') (1935) * '' La Citadelle du silence'' (''The Citadel of Silence'') (1937) * '' Un carnet de bal'' (''Life Dances On'') (1937) * '' Le Messager'' (''The Messenger'') (1937) * '' L'Homme de nulle part'' (''The Man f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Carton
Pauline Carton (4 July 1884 – 17 June 1974) was a French film actress. She appeared in more than 190 films between 1907 and 1974. Filmography * ''La fille du Boche'' (1915) * ''Blanchette'' (1921) * ''La femme de nulle part'' (1922) * ''Château historique'' (1923) - Tante Chloë * ''Mon curé chez les riches'' (1925) * '' Feu Mathias Pascal'' (1926) - Tante Scholastique * '' Le p'tit Parigot'' (1926) - Tante Prudence * ''La tournée Farigoule'' (1926) - La poétesse * ''La petite fonctionnaire'' (1927) - Madame Lebardin * '' Education of a Prince'' (1927) - La concierge * ''La ronde infernale'' (1928) * ''Yvette'' (1928) * ''Miss Édith, duchesse'' (1929) - Marie * ''L'arpète'' (1929) - La concierge * '' My Childish Father'' (1930) - The Concierge * ''Cendrillon de Paris'' (1930) * ''Black and White'' (1931) - Marie - la bonne * ''Montmartre'' (1931) * ''The Voice of Happiness'' (1931) * ''American Love'' (1931) - Pauline * '' The Blood of a Poet'' (1932) * ''Seul'' (193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernand Fabre
Fernand Fabre (1899–1987) was a French stage, television and film actor.Goble p.49 Selected filmography * ''The Queen's Necklace'' (1929) * '' The Indictment'' (1931) * ''Luck'' (1931) * ''The Weaker Sex'' (1933) * ''Madame Bovary'' (1934) * '' A Man Has Been Stolen'' (1934) * '' Light Cavalry'' (1935) * '' The Mysterious Lady'' (1936) * '' The Man of the Hour'' (1937) * '' My Little Marquise'' (1938) * '' Nights of Princes'' (1938) * '' Colonel Chabert'' (1943) * ''The Stairs Without End'' (1943) * ''The Last Metro'' (1945) * '' Special Mission'' (1946) * '' After Love'' (1948) * ''Bluebeard "Bluebeard" (french: Barbe bleue, ) is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault and first published by Barbin in Paris in 1697 in '' Histoires ou contes du temps passé''. The tale tells the s ...'' (1951) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
After Midnight (1938 Film)
''After Midnight'' (German: ''Ab Mitternacht'') is a 1938 French-German drama film directed by Carl Hoffmann and starring Gina Falckenberg, Peter Voß and René Deltgen.Goble p.661 It was shot as a German-language version of the French film '' Nights of Princes'', produced as a co-production between the French subsidiary of Tobis Film and the producer Joseph N. Ermolieff. Such multiple-language versions were common during the decade. Both films were based on the 1927 novel '' Nights of Princes'' by Joseph Kessel. It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alexandre Lochakoff and Vladimir Meingard. Synopsis Helene performs in a Paris nightclub run by White Russian exiles. When a her husband, an engineer she believed had died in the Russian Civil War, reappears she tries to assist him. However, this opens her to blackmail by her dancing partner Fedor. Cast * Gina Falckenberg as Helene * Peter Voß as Petroff * René D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Meingard
Vladimir may refer to: Names * Vladimir (name) for the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian spellings of a Slavic name * Uladzimir for the Belarusian version of the name * Volodymyr for the Ukrainian version of the name * Włodzimierz (given name) for the Polish version of the name * Valdemar for the Germanic version of the name * Wladimir for an alternative spelling of the name Places * Vladimir, Russia, a city in Russia * Vladimir Oblast, a federal subject of Russia * Vladimir-Suzdal, a medieval principality * Vladimir, Ulcinj, a village in Ulcinj Municipality, Montenegro * Vladimir, Gorj, a commune in Gorj County, Romania * Vladimir, a village in Goiești Commune, Dolj County, Romania * Vladimir (river), a tributary of the Gilort in Gorj County, Romania * Volodymyr (city), a city in Ukraine Religious leaders * Metropolitan Vladimir (other), multiple * Jovan Vladimir (d. 1016), ruler of Doclea and a saint of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Lochakoff
Alexandre Lochakoff was a Russian-born art director.Phillips p.39 After fleeing following the Russian Revolution in 1917 he settled in France where he worked designing film sets. Selected filmography * ''Heart of an Actress'' (1924) * ''Michel Strogoff'' (1926) * ''Napoleon'' (1927) * ''Secrets of the Orient ''Secrets of the Orient'' (german: Geheimnisse des Orients) is a 1928 German- French silent drama film directed by Alexandre Volkoff and starring Nikolas Kolin, Iván Petrovich and Dimitri Dimitriev.Bock p. 237 It was made at the Babelsberg S ...'' (1928) * '' The White Devil'' (1930) * '' Sergeant X'' (1932) * '' Port Arthur'' (1936) * '' The Red Dancer'' (1937) * '' Nights of Princes'' (1938) * '' After Midnight'' (1938) * '' The Patriot'' (1938) References Bibliography * Alastair Phillips. ''City of Darkness, City of Light: Émigré Filmmakers in Paris, 1929-1939''. Amsterdam University Press, 2004. External links * Year of birth unknown Year of death unkno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style(s) to use, and when to use motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the collective imagination while resolving conflicting agendas and inconsistencies be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
