| Nuits Rouges | |
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| Directed by | Georges Franju |
| Screenplay by | Jacques Champreaux |
| Produced by | Raymond Froment |
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| Cinematography | Guido Renzo Bertoni |
| Edited by | Gilbert Natot |
| Music by | Georges Franju |
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| Distributed by | Planfilm |
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| Running time | 105 minutes |
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| Language | French |
Nuits Rouges (lit. Red Nights, in French) is a 1974 French-Italian crime thriller film directed by Georges Franju. The film was released in the U.S. in an English-dubbed version by New Line Cinema under the title Shadowman in 1975. It is an adaptation of a 1973 French-Italian-Yugoslav TV mini-series titled "L'Homme sans visage" (The Man Without a Face).
Premise
Paul de Borrego is a scholar whose field of research is the history of Templars. His discoveries are used by a criminal organisation led by the mysterious Faceless Man to help the latter expand his army of killers composed of people with dead brains.
Cast
- Gayle Hunnicutt as the woman
- Jacques Champreux as the Faceless Man
- Josephine Chaplin as Martine Leduc
- Ugo Pagliai as Paul de Borrego
- Gert Froebe as Police commissioner Sorbier
Production
Nuits Rouges was filmed in 1973. The film is a 100-minute theatrical version of a film originally commissioned for television. The budget for the film was so modest that Franju had to film all interiors of the film on a studio set.
Jacques Champreux (Louis Feuillade's grandson) who plays one the lead roles, had directed the series that inspired the film. He also had worked on Franju's Judex, which was also based on a film series.
Nuits Rouges is Franju's last feature film.
Release
Nuits Rouges was released on November 20, 1974, in France.
Reception
Nuits Rouges received mixed and even mocking reviews from French critics on its release. Nuits Rouges was released on DVD in the United Kingdom as part of Eureka's Masters of Cinema series along with another film by Georges Franju, Judex (1963) in 2008.
Notes
- "Nuits Rouges". BFI Film & Television Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 17, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
- ^ "Credits". BFI Film & Television Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on February 1, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
- "Nuits rouges (1973) Georges Franju". Bifi.fr (in French). Retrieved November 17, 2013.
- "Release". BFI Film & Television Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on February 1, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
- Baudou, Jacques; Shleret, Jean-Jacques (1989-12-31). Meurtres en séries : les séries policières de la télévision française (in French). FeniXX réédition numérique. ISBN 978-2-402-09240-1.
- ^ Ince, 2005. p. 58
- Ince, 2005. p.59
- "Nuits rouges (Georges Franju, 1973) - La Cinémathèque française". www.cinematheque.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-10-22.
- Ince, Kate (2005-07-22). Georges Franju. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-6828-7.
- Buache, Freddy (1996-01-01). Georges Franju : poésie et vérité: Rétrospective G. Franju organisée par le Festival de Belfort-Entrevues, 23 novembre-1er décembre 1996 (in French). FeniXX. ISBN 978-2-307-25154-5.
- Erlewine, Iotis. "Nuits Rouges". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
- Ince, 2005. p.60-61
- "Nuits rouges". Eureka Video. Archived from the original on May 9, 2013. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
References
- Ince, Kate (2005). Georges Franju. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-6828-2.
External links
- Nuits Rouges at IMDb
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