''Nights of Fire'' (French: ''Nuits de feu'') is a 1937 French
drama film directed by
Marcel L'Herbier and starring
Gaby Morlay
Gaby Morlay (born Blanche Pauline Fumoleau; 8 June 1893 – 4 July 1964) was a film actress from France. ,
Victor Francen and
Madeleine Robinson. The scenario is based on the 1901 work ''
The Living Corpse'' by
Leo Tolstoy.
[Goble p.463] The film's sets were designed by the
art directors
Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.
There is no generally agreed definition of what ...
Guy de Gastyne
Guy de Gastyne (1888–1972) was a French art director. He was the brother of the film director Marco de Gastyne.Andrew p.184
Selected filmography
* ''Little Lise'' (1930)
* ''Orange Blossom'' (1932)
* '' Buridan's Donkey'' (1932)
* ''Abduct Me'' ...
and
Eugène Lourié while the costumes were by
Georges Annenkov.
Cast
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Gaby Morlay
Gaby Morlay (born Blanche Pauline Fumoleau; 8 June 1893 – 4 July 1964) was a film actress from France. as Lisa Andreieva
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Victor Francen as Fedor Andreiev
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as Serge Rostoff
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Madeleine Robinson as Macha
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Sinoël as the man at the jury court
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Mia Slavenska
Mia Slavenska, née Čorak (20 February 1916 in Brod-na-Sava, now Croatia, then Austria-Hungary – 5 October 2002 in Los Angeles, United States) was a Croatian-American soloist of the Russian Ballet of Monte Carlo in 1938–1952 and 1954–1955 ...
as the ballerina
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Paule Andral
Paule Andral (14 September 1879 – 28 March 1956) was a French actress.
Andral was born Paule Roucole in Paris and died in Nice in 1956.
Selected filmography
* ''Tarakanova'' (1930)
* ''David Golder'' (1931)
* '' The Rebel'' (1931)
* '' The B ...
as Lisa's mother
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Gabriel Signoret
Gabriel Signoret (November 15, 1878 – March 16, 1937, in Paris, France) was a French silent film actor.
He starred in some 70 films between 1910 and 1938.
In 1920 he appeared in Guy du Fresnay's ''Flipotte''.
His brother Jean Signoret (bor ...
as the substitute Bobinine
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Jeanne Lory
Jeanne may refer to:
Places
* Jeanne (crater), on Venus
People
* Jeanne (given name)
* Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc, 1412–1431)
* Joanna of Flanders (1295–1374)
* Joan, Duchess of Brittany (1319–1384)
* Ruth Stuber Jeanne (1910–2004), Americ ...
as Misses Bobinine
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Odette Talazac
Odette Talazac (1883–1948) was a French film actress.Capua p.129
Talazac was the daughter of tenor Jean-Alexandre Talazac and his wife, the soprano Hélène Fauvelle. She began her career singing in music halls before turning to the theater an ...
as a gipsy
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André Nox as the president
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René Bergeron
René ('' born again'' or ''reborn'' in French) is a common first name in French-speaking, Spanish-speaking, and German-speaking countries. It derives from the Latin name Renatus.
René is the masculine form of the name (Renée being the feminin ...
as an informer
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Jean Toulout as Balichev
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René Génin as Balichev's client
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Paulette Burguetas the photographer
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Albert Malbert as Le cocher
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Yvonne Yma
Yvonne Yma (1887–1959) was a French stage and film actress.Phillips p.212
Selected filmography
* '' Take Care of Amelie'' (1932)
* '' A Father Without Knowing It'' (1932)
* ''Student's Hotel'' (1932)
* ''The Barber of Seville'' (1933)
* ''The Br ...
as La femme du cocher
*
Marguerite de Morlaye
Marguerite de Morlaye (29 January 1870, Saint-Mandé –18 September 1957, Paris) was a French actress.
Selected filmography
* ''Martyr'' (1927)
* '' A Foolish Maiden'' (1929)
* '' The Wonderful Day'' (1932)
* '' La dame de chez Maxim's'' (1933)
...
as Une spectatrice à l'opéra
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Luce Fabiole as Une invitée aux fiançailles
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Blanche Denège
Blanche may refer to:
People
* Blanche (singer), stage name of Belgian singer and songwriter Ellie Delvaux
*Blanche (given name)
* Blanche (surname)
Places Australia
* Blanche Harbor (South Australia), a bay on the east coast of Eyre Peninsula
* ...
as Une invitée aux fiançailles
*
Jeanne de Carol
Jeanne may refer to:
Places
* Jeanne (crater), on Venus
People
* Jeanne (given name)
* Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc, 1412–1431)
* Joanna of Flanders (1295–1374)
* Joan, Duchess of Brittany (1319–1384)
* Ruth Stuber Jeanne (1910–2004), Amer ...
as Une invitée aux fiançailles
*
Ernest Ferny as L'officier
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Charles Dorat
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was " ...
as Un prisonnier
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Roger Monteaux as Le commissaire
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Titys as Un magistrat
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Roger Legris
Roger Legris (3 July 1898 – 22 May 1981) was a French actor.
Selected filmography
* '' On the Streets'' (1933)
* '' The House on the Dune'' (1934)
* ''The Devil in the Bottle'' (1935)
* ''Counsel for Romance'' (1936)
* ''Wells in Flames'' (19 ...
as Le jeune soldat
*
Sylvain Sylvain is the French form of Silvanus. It may refer to:
People
*Sylvain Archambault, Canadian director
*Sylvain Bied (1965–2011), French footballer and manager
*Sylvain Cappell (born 1946), American mathematician
*Sylvain Chavanel (born 1979) ...
as Un soldat
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Robert Ozanne
Robert Ozanne (February 13, 1898 – September 14, 1941) was a French film actor.Youngkin p.466
Selected filmography
* ''The Three Musketeers'' (1932)
* ''The Oil Sharks'' (1933)
* '' Miquette'' (1934)
* '' The House on the Dune'' (1934)
* ''The ...
as Un soldat
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Robert Ralphy
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...
as Le secrétaire du procureur
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Jacques Beauvais as Le pêcheur
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Pierre Juvenet
Pierre Juvenet (1883–1951) was a French stage and film actor.Powrie p.231 A character actor, he appeared in more than a hundred films frequently portraying officials and authority figures.
Selected filmography
* ''The Mystery of the Yellow Ro ...
as Un invité
References
Bibliography
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
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''Nuits de feu'' (1937)at the ''Films de France''
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Fiche sur ''Nuits de feu''sur le site DvdToile
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sur le site ToutleCine
1937 films
French drama films
1930s French-language films
French black-and-white films
Films directed by Marcel L'Herbier
1937 drama films
Films based on works by Leo Tolstoy
1930s French films
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