''Queen of the Night'' (Italian:''La donna di una notte'') is a 1931 French

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directed by

Marcel L'Herbier Marcel L'Herbier (; 23 April 1888 – 26 November 1979) was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued unti ...

, assisted by Amleto Palermi and Guido Brignone, and starring

Francesca Bertini Francesca Bertini (born Elena Seracini Vitiello; 5 January 1892 – 13 October 1985) was an Italian silent film actress. She was one of the most successful silent film stars in the first quarter of the twentieth-century. Biography Born in Pra ...

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and

Romano Calò Romano Calò (6 May 1883 – 17 August 1952) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 30 films between 1913 and 1945. Selected filmography * ''Il bacio di Cirano'' (1913) * '' But It Isn't Serious'' (1921) * '' Queen of the Night'' (1931) ...

.Masia & Lancia It was filmed in Germany as the Italian-language version of the French film ''

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'', also directed by L'Herbier. In the early years of

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it was common to remake films in different languages. A German-language version was also released the same year directed by

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. The film's sets were designed by the

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and

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. This was the first sound movie for

Cast

as La principessa Elena di Lystria *

as Jean Derville *

as Il presidente del Consiglio * Giorgio Bianchi as Il tenente della guardia *

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as Nanette *

Oreste Bilancia Oreste Bilancia (24 September 1881 – 31 October 1945) was an Italian film actor. Born in Catania, Sicily he was a star of Italian films in the silent era. He worked during the 1920s in Weimar Germany which had the largest European film indust ...

as Rosiek *

Raimondo Van Riel Raimondo Van Riel (22 January 1881, in Rome – 9 May 1962, in Mentana) was an Italian actor. Raimondo Van Riel was born on January 22, 1881, in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is known for his work on Quo Vadis? (1924), The Magnificent Rogue (1935) and ...

as Lo sconosciuto *

Angelo Ferrari Angelo Ferrari (14 August 1897 – 15 June 1945) was an Italian actor known for his work in German cinema. Selected filmography * ''The Nude Woman'' (1922) * ''The Green Manuela'' (1923) * ''Samson'' (1923) * '' The Faces of Love'' (1924) * ''Pr ...

as L'ufficiale di polizia *

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as Il portiere del principato di Lystria

References

Bibliography

* Stefano Masi & Enrico Lancia. ''Les séductrices du cinéma italien''. Gremese Editore, 1 January 1997''.

External links

* 1931 films French comedy films 1931 comedy films 1930s Italian-language films Films directed by Marcel L'Herbier Films scored by Michel Michelet French multilingual films French black-and-white films 1931 multilingual films 1930s French films {{1930s-France-film-stub