The Lovers of Midnight | |
Director: | Augusto Genina Marc Allégret |
Producer: | Pierre Braunberger Carl Froelich Roger Richebé |
Starring: | Danièle Parola Pierre Batcheff Josseline Gaël |
Music: | Philippe Parès Georges Van Parys |
Cinematography: | Roger Hubert Theodor Sparkuhl |
Editing: | Jean Mamy |
Studio: | Carl Froelich-Film Les Établissements Braunberger-Richebé |
Distributor: | Paris-Cinéma Location |
Runtime: | 109 minutes |
Country: | France Germany |
Language: | French |
The Lovers of Midnight (French: Les amours de minuit) is a 1931 French-German crime drama film directed by Augusto Genina and Marc Allégret and starring Danièle Parola, Pierre Batcheff and Josseline Gaël.[1] It is a Multiple-language version with a separate German-language version Mitternachtsliebe also produced. It was the first sound film to be made at the Billancourt Studios in Paris.[2] It was remade as the 1943 film Voyage Without Hope during the Occupation period.
Marcel, a young bank clerk who has stolen money on a sudden whim is heading south to catch a ship to Latin America. On the train he encounters ruthless criminal Gaston who persuades his mistress Georgette, a singer in a nightclub to seduce and rob the clerk. However, she begins to develop sympathy for him.