''One Night's Song'' (French: ''La chanson d'une nuit'') is a 1933
musical film
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directed by
Pierre Colombier and
Anatole Litvak and starring
Jan Kiepura,
Magda Schneider and
Pierre Brasseur. It was a
co-production between Germany and France. It was shot at the
Babelsberg Studios in
Berlin alongside the German ''
The Song of Night''. A separate English-language version ''
Tell Me Tonight'' was also produced.
Synopsis
Celebrated
opera singer Enrico Ferraro is overwhelmed by his fame and tired of being directed by his manager. He heads to the
French Riviera
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for a break and there encounters Koretzky, a man who strongly resembles him. He engages Koretzky to act as his
double but complications soon arise.
Cast
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Jan Kiepura as Enrico Ferraro
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Magda Schneider as Mathilde
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Pierre Brasseur as Koretzky
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Charlotte Lysès as Mme Pategg
*
Clara Tambour
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as Le manager
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Charles Lamy
Charles Lamy or M. Lamy (28 August 1857 – 15 June 1940) was the stage name of the French actor Charles Castarède.Martin, p. 214 Life and career
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as Balthazar
*
Lucien Baroux as Pategg
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René Bergeron
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as L'employé des contributions
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Pierre Labry
Pierre Labry (1885–1948) was a French stage and film actor.Capua p.122 He was active in the French film industry between 1920 and 1948, appearing in more than a hundred films.
Selected filmography
* ''La croisade'' (1920)
* ''Gigolette'' (1921 ...
as L'inspecteur
Critical reception
A review in the film magazine ''
Pour Vous
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'' considered it "tasteful cinema, light-heartedness and good humor without any vulgarity" while other reviewers praised Anatole Litvak's direction.
[Capua p.124]
References
Bibliography
*Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. ''Histoire du cinéma français: 1929-1934''. Pygmalion, 1988.
* Crisp, Colin. ''Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939''. Indiana University Press, 2002.
* Rège, Philippe. ''Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1''. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
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1933 films
French musical films
German musical films
1933 musical films
1930s French-language films
Films directed by Pierre Colombier
Films directed by Anatole Litvak
French black-and-white films
1930s French films
1930s German films
Films of the Weimar Republic
Cine-Allianz films
1933 multilingual films
French multilingual films
German multilingual films
Films shot at Babelsberg Studios
Films set on the French Riviera
Films scored by Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Films scored by Mischa Spoliansky
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