White Nights in Saint Petersburg

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White Nights in Saint Petersburg
File:White Nights in Saint Petersburg.jpg
Directed by Jean Dréville
Produced by Jack Forrester
André Parant
Written by André Legrand
Based on The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
Starring Gaby Morlay
Jean Yonnel
Pierre Renoir
Music by Adolphe Borchard
Cinematography Michel Kelber
Edited by Raymond Leboursier
Production
company
Forrester-Parant Productions
Distributed by Forrester-Parant Productions
Release dates
9 March 1938
Running time
97 minutes
Country France
Language French

White Nights in Saint Petersburg (French: Les nuits blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg) is a 1938 French drama film directed by Jean Dréville and starring Gaby Morlay, Jean Yonnel and Pierre Renoir.[1][2] It is an adaptation of the 1889 novella The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy.[3] It is sometimes known by this title, and should not be confused with the 1937 German film The Kreutzer Sonata directed by Veit Harlan. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Lucien Carré, Alexandre Lochakoff and Vladimir Meingard while the costume design was overseen by Boris Bilinsky.

Cast

References

  1. Crisp p.411
  2. Bessy & Chirat p.273
  3. Goble p.891

Bibliography

  • Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: encyclopédie des films, Volume 2. Pygmalion, 1986.
  • Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.
  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

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