''Nights in Port Said'' (French: ''Les nuits de Port Said'') is a 1932 French

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by

Leo Mittler Leo Mittler (18 December 1893 – 16 May 1958) was an Austrian playwright, screenwriter and film director. Mittler was born in Vienna, then the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to a Jewish family. He attended the University of Music and Per ...

and starring Renée Héribel,

Gustav Diessl Gustav Diessl (30 December 1899 – 20 March 1948) was an Austrian artist, and film and stage actor. Biography Diessl was born Gustav Karl Balthasar Diessl in Vienna. In 1916, he was an extra on different stages in Vienna but was soon recruited ...

and

Oskar Homolka Oskar Homolka (August 12, 1898 – January 27, 1978) was an Austrian film and theatre actor, who went on to work in Germany, Britain and America. Both his voice and his appearance fitted him for roles as communist spies or Soviet officials, for w ...

.Waldman & Slide p.72 It was shot at the

Joinville Studios The Joinville Studios were a film studio in Paris which operated between 1910 and 1987. They were one of the leading French studios, with major companies such as Pathé and Gaumont making films there. A second studio was added to the original ...

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

. The film's sets were designed by the

art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...

Alfred Junge Alfred Junge (29 January 1886, Görlitz, Silesia (now Saxony), Germany – 16 July 1964, London) was a German-born production designer who spent a large part of his career working in the British film industry. Junge had wanted to be an artis ...

. It was produced and distributed by the French subsidiary of

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Cast

* Renée Héribel as Charlotte *

as Le matelot Hans *

as Winston Winkler *

Marcel Vallée Marcel Vallée (15 January 1880, in Paris – 31 October 1957, in Fontaine-le-Port) was a French actor, primarily of the theater. He began working in films with Max Linder in 1906. He appeared in some American films. Selected filmography * '' ...

as L'oncle *

Leonard Steckel Leonard Steckel (18 January 1901 – 9 February 1971) was a German-JewishSiegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), p. 213 actor and director of stage and scre ...

as Le levantin *

Jean Worms Jean Worms (1884–1943) was a French film actor who appeared in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. Worms played Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in the 1938 film ''Rasputin''.Kennedy-Karpat p.204 Partial filmography * ''L'auberge rouge'' (191 ...

as Le tenancier de l'agence *

José Davert José Davert (1874–1934) was a French film actor.Goble p.143 Selected filmography * '' The House of Mystery'' (1923) * ''The Man Without Nerves'' (1924) * ''Adventure on the Night Express'' (1925) * ''The Phantom of the Moulin Rouge'' (1925) * ...

* Philiberte Lokay * Armand Lurville *

Ricardo Núñez Ricardo Núñez (July 16, 1904 – June 16, 1998) was a Spanish actor, screenwriter, producer and film director. He starred in the 1934 comedy film '' World Crisis'' (1934).Bentley p.57 Selected filmography Actor * '' The Rascal of Madrid'' (192 ...

Nadia Sibirskaïa Nadia Sibirskaïa (born Germaine Marie Josèphe Lebas, 11 September 1901 – 14 July 1980) was a French film actress.Sultanik p.263 She was married to the Russian-born director Dimitri Kirsanoff and appeared in several of his early films. Filmogr ...

References

Bibliography

* Waldman, Harry & Slide, Anthony. ''Hollywood and the Foreign Touch: A Dictionary of Foreign Filmmakers and Their Films from America, 1910-1995''. Scarecrow Press, 1996.

External links

* 1932 films French drama films 1932 drama films 1930s French-language films Films directed by Leo Mittler Paramount Pictures films Films shot at Joinville Studios French black-and-white films 1930s French films Films scored by Marcel Lattès {{1930s-France-film-stub