''At Night All Cats Are Crazy'' (, lit. ''At night all cats are grey'') is a French film by
Gérard Zingg released in
1977
Events January
* January 8 – 1977 Moscow bombings, Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
* January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (no ...
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Synopsis
Charles Watson tells Lily, his 10-year-old niece, a story about a character called Philibert, a bad boy. Lily wants to meet the latter and loses herself in a world where fiction and reality are mixed up. Her uncle believes as far as he's concerned, that he possesses literary gifts and loves living in the greatest of comforts.
Datasheet
* Directed by :
Gérard Zingg
* Screenplay :
Gérard Zingg and
Philippe Dumarçay
* Music :
Jean-Claude Vannier
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Vannier is regarded as an important musician in his native country; music critic Andy ...
* Editing :
Hélène Viard
* Casting :
Margot Capelier
* Set designer :
Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko
* Distribution :
Accatone Distribution, France
* Production
France 3
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Cinéma (France),
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* Producer :
Pierre Hanin
* Country :
France
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* Release date :
23 novembre 1977 (France)
* Genre : Comedy drama
* Duration : 124 min
Cast
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Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (, , ; born 27 December 1948) is a French actor. An icon of French cinema, considered a world star in the same way as Alain Delon or Brigitte Bardot, he has completed over 250 films since 1967, most of which as ...
: ''Philippe Larcher''
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Robert Stephens
Sir Robert Graham Stephens (14 July 193112 November 1995) was an English actor in the early years of Britain's Royal National Theatre.
Early life
Stephens was born in Shirehampton, Bristol, in 1931, the eldest of three children of shipyard ...
: ''Charles Watson''
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Laura Betti
Laura Betti ( Trombetti; May 1 1934 – 31 July 2004) was an Italian actress known particularly for her work with directors Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Bernardo Bertolucci. She had a long friendship with Pasolini and made a docume ...
: ''Jacqueline''
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Tsilla Chelton
Tsilla Chelton (21 June 1919 – 15 July 2012) was a French actress of theatre and film, famous for playing the main role in 1990 film Tatie Danielle, in which she was nominated for a César Awards and as an elderly Dominican in Sister Smile.
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: ''Madame Banalesco''
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Charlotte Crow : ''Lily''
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Albert Simono
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* Albert Computers, Inc., a computer manufacturer in the 1980s
* Albert Czech Republic, a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic
* Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands
* Albert Market, a street mar ...
: ''Gaston, aka "Gastounet"''
*
Virginie Thévenet
Virginie Thévenet (born 12 January 1957, in Paris) is a French actress, director and screenwriter.
Films with Virginie Thévenet as actress
* 1970 : '' Les Stances de Sophie'', by Moshé Mizrahi
* 1972 : ''Faustine et le Bel Été''
* 1972 : ' ...
: ''Jeannette''
*
Dominique Laffin : ''The shop assistant''
*
Raoul Delfosse : ''The bald man''
*
Ann Zacharias
Ann Zacharias (born 19 September 1956) is a Swedish actress. She appeared in fifteen films and television shows between 1971 and 1988. She is the mother of Swedish actress Sascha Zacharias.
Selected filmography
* '' The Last Adventure'' (1974) ...
: ''The white cat''
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Gabriel Jabbour
Gabriel Jabbour (Arabic: غبريال جبّور) (7 November 1922 – 20 September 1987) was a French actor.
He made his debut in acting in 1957 in L'affaire Sarret-Schmidt on television. Between then and 1987 he made almost 70 appearances in ...
: ''Mr Banalesco
*
Irina Grjebina : ''The withered beauty''
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Lily Fayol
Lily Fayol (12 June 1914, Allevard, Isère – 15 May 1999, Saint-Raphaël, Var) was a French singer.
The artistic career of Lily Fayol began shortly before World War II. Acquainted with talent manager Johnny Stark she had a series of hits from ...
: ''The joyful widow''
*
Jean Lemaître : ''M. Chatin''
*
Roger Muni : ''The barman''
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Gérard Hernandez
Julio Gerardo "Gérard" Hernandez (born 20 January 1933) is a Spanish-French actor.
Biography
Hernandez was born in Valladolid, Spain and was naturalized French only in 1975. He is mostly famous for his mustache and for having voiced several ...
: ''The punter''
*
Julien Verdier
Julien Verdier (13 January 1910 – 15 July 1999) was a French actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1949 to 1994.
Filmography
References
External links
*
1910 births
1999 deaths
French male film actors
{{Fran ...
: ''The man in his sixties''
References
External links
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''La nuit, tous les chats sont gris''sur festival-lumiere.orge
French comedy-drama films
1970s French-language films
1977 films
1970s French films
1977 comedy-drama films
French-language comedy-drama films
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