Nights of Princes | |
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Director: | Marcel L'Herbier |
Starring: | Gina Manès Jaque Catelain Harry Nestor |
Music: | Michel Michelet |
Cinematography: | Léonce-Henri Burel Nikolai Toporkoff |
Studio: | Sequana Films |
Distributor: | Films Louis Aubert |
Runtime: | 80 minutes |
Country: | France |
Language: | French |
Nights of Princes (French: Nuits de princes) is a 1930 French drama film directed by Marcel L'Herbier and starring Gina Manès, Jaque Catelain and Harry Nestor. It is an adaptation of the 1927 novel of the same title by Joseph Kessel.[1] The story was remade as a 1938 film directed by Vladimir Strizhevsky.
It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Serge Piménoff and Pierre Schild.
A White Russian woman working as a dancer in a Paris nightclub finds her past returning to haunt her when her husband, an engineer long believed dead in the Russian Civil War, reappears to seek her help.