White Nights in Saint Petersburg

White Nights in Saint Petersburg
Directed byJean Dréville
Written byAndré Legrand
Based onThe Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy
Produced byJack Forrester
André Parant
StarringGaby Morlay
Jean Yonnel
Pierre Renoir
CinematographyMichel Kelber
Edited byRaymond Leboursier
Music byAdolphe Borchard
Production
company
Forrester-Parant Productions
Distributed byForrester-Parant Productions
Release date
  • 9 March 1938 (1938-03-09)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

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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