After Midnight (German: Ab Mitternacht) is a 1938 French-German drama film directed by Carl Hoffmann and starring Gina Falckenberg, Peter Voß and René Deltgen.[1] 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.
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Directed by | Carl Hoffmann |
Written by | Joseph N. Ermolieff Walter Zerlett-Olfenius |
Based on | Nights of Princes by Joseph Kessel |
Produced by | Herbert Engelsing Joseph N. Ermolieff |
Starring | Gina Falckenberg Peter Voß René Deltgen |
Cinematography | Karl Löb |
Edited by | Carl Forcht |
Music by | Michel Michelet |
Production companies | Ermolieff Films Tobis Film |
Distributed by | Tobis Film |
Release date | 8 April 1938 |
Running time | 78 minutes |
Countries | France Germany |
Language | German |
It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alexandre Lochakoff and Vladimir Meingard.
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.
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