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After Midnight (1938 film)
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Wikipedia article
'After Midnight' (German: 'Ab Mitternacht') is a 1938 French-German drama film directed by Carl Hoffmann and starring Gina Falckenberg, Peter Vo and Ren Deltgen.Goble p.661 It was shot as a German-language version of the French film 'Nights of Princes', produced as a co-production between the French subsidiary of Tobis Film and the producer Joseph N. Ermolieff. Such multiple-language versions were common during the decade. Both films were based on the 1927 novel 'Nights of Princes' by Joseph Kessel.
It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alexandre Lochakoff and Vladimir Meingard.
Synopsis
Helene performs in a Paris nightclub run by White Russian exiles. When a her husband, an engineer she believed had died in the Russian Civil War, reappears she tries to assist him. However, this opens her to blackmail by her dancing partner Fedor.
Cast
* Gina Falckenberg as Helene
* Peter Vo as Petroff
* Ren Deltgen as Fedor
* Marina Shubert as Vera
* Alexander Engel as Wronski
* Hubert von Meyerinck as Ricin
* Nicolas Koline as Schuwaloff
* Eva Tinschmann as Mme. Mesureux
* Katja Bennefeld as Secretary
* Hertha Windschild as Yvette
References
Bibliography
* Goble, Alan. 'The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film'. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
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