''Return at Dawn'' (French: ''Retour à l'aube'') is a
1938 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 ...
starring
Danielle Darrieux
Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux (; 1 May 1917 – 17 October 2017) was a French actress of stage, television and film, as well as a singer and dancer.
Beginning in 1931, she appeared in more than 110 films. She was one of France's g ...
, and was directed by
Henri Decoin, who co-wrote the screenplay with
Pierre Wolff
Pierre Wolff (1 January 1865, in Paris – 1944) was a French playwright.
Biography
Pierre Wolff was a Jewish writer, who wrote numerous plays, as well as some libretti for operettas. He was the nephew of journalist Albert Wolff. His dramas wer ...
, based on a short story by
Vicki Baum
Hedwig "Vicki" Baum (; he, ויקי באום; January 24, 1888 – August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer. She is known for the novel ''Menschen im Hotel'' ("People at a Hotel", 1929 — published in English as '' Grand Hotel''), one of h ...
. The music score is by
Paul Misraki
Paul Misraki (28 January 1908 – 29 October 1998) was a French composer of popular music and film scores. Over the course of over 60 years, Misraki wrote the music to 130 films, scoring works by directors like Jean Renoir, Claude Chabrol, ...
. The sets were designed by the
art director Serge Piménoff
Serge Piménoff (1895–1960) was a Russian-born French art director. He designed the sets for the 1958 film ''Les Misérables''.Hayward p.232
Selected filmography
* '' Nights of Princes'' (1930)
* '' The Unknown Singer'' (1931)
* '' Sailor's Son ...
. It was filmed in
Zichyújfalu
Zichyújfalu (IPA: ) is a village in Fejér county, Hungary, about 10 km from Lake Velencei, which is more or less easy to reach on road and on railway ( Pusztaszabolcs-Székesfehérvár line). The settlement used to be a part of Gárdon ...
and
Budapest, Hungary.
Plot
A stationmaster's wife must go to Budapest to claim an inheritance, but is late for a train and she experiences many adventures during the night.
Cast
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Danielle Darrieux
Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux (; 1 May 1917 – 17 October 2017) was a French actress of stage, television and film, as well as a singer and dancer.
Beginning in 1931, she appeared in more than 110 films. She was one of France's g ...
as Anita Ammer
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Pierre Dux
Pierre Dux (21 October 1908 – 1 December 1990) was a French stage director, stage actor, and film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1932 and 1990.
Filmography
References
External links
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1908 births
1990 deaths
Burials ...
as Karl Ammer
*
Jacques Dumesnil as Dick Farmer aka 'Keith'
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Pierre Mingand
Pierre Mingand (1900–1982) was a French singer and film actor. He was known for his impersonations of Maurice Chevalier at the Folies Bergère, something he reprised in Billy Wilder's 1934 film ''Mauvaise Graine''.Phillips p.104
Selected filmo ...
as Osten
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Raymond Cordy as Pali
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Samson Fainsilber
Samson Fainsilber (18 June 1904, Iași – 19 December 1983, Paris) was a Romanian-born French film actor. During his career he appeared in around sixty films and television series. He featured in the 1933 historical drama '' Roger la Honte''.Goble ...
as L'inspecteur Veber
*
Marcel Delaître
Marcel Delaître (1888–1963) was a French film and stage actor.Crisp p.94
Selected filmography
* '' Happy Hearts'' (1932)
* '' Poliche'' (1934)
* ''Street Without a Name'' (1934)
* ''Crime and Punishment'' (1935)
* '' Girls of Paris'' (1936) ...
as Le commissaire
*
Thérèse Dorny as La directrice de la maison de couture
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Louis Florencie
Louis Florencie (4 December 1896 – 4 December 1951) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1927 and 1951.
Selected filmography
* ''Companion Wanted'' (1932)
* ''Beauty Spot'' (1932)
* '' Suzanne'' (1932)
* '' N ...
*
Léonce Corne as Un ami d'Osten
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André Numès Fils
André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew, and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries. It is a variation ...
as Le notaire
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Jacques Henley
Jacques Henley (born Jacques Dhote) was a French actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Our Masters, the Servants'' (1930)
* '' The Mystery of the Villa Rose'' (1930)
* ''The Threepenny Opera'' (1931)
* '' The Yellow Dog'' (1932)
* '' The Regiment's Ch ...
as Un ami d'Osten
*
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 voyageur
*
Yvonne Yma
*
Marcelle Barry
*
Amy Collin
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Albert Brouett as Voyageur à la couronne
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Marcel Pérès
Marcel Pérès (born 15 July 1956, Oran, Algeria) is a French musicologist, composer, choral director and singer, and the founder of the early music group Ensemble Organum. He is an authority on Gregorian and pre-Gregorian chant.
Pérès w ...
as Le pharmacien
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Pierre de Ramey as Un ami d'Osten
References
External links
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''Retour à l'aube''at filmsdefrance.com
1938 films
1938 drama films
French black-and-white films
Films directed by Henri Decoin
Films set in Budapest
Films shot in Budapest
Films based on short fiction
French drama films
1930s French-language films
1930s French films
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