Nights of Princes (1930 film)

Nights of Princes (French: Nuits de princes) is a 1930 French drama film directed by Marcel L'Herbier and starring Gina Manès, Jaque Catelain and Harry Nestor. It is an adaptation of the 1927 novel of the same title by Joseph Kessel. The story was remade as a 1938 film directed by Vladimir Strizhevsky.

It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Serge Piménoff and Pierre Schild.

Plot

A White Russian woman working as a dancer in a Paris nightclub finds her past returning to haunt her when her husband, an engineer long believed dead in the Russian Civil War, reappears to seek her help.

Cast

Gina Manès as Helene Vronsky

Jaque Catelain as Prince Vassia Heridze

Harry Nestor as Prince Fedor Achkeliani

Alice Tissot as Mlle. Mesureux

Dimitri Dimitriev as Anton Irtych

Alexandre Mihalesco as Stéphane

Walia Ostermann as Nathalia Vronsky

Jean Toulout as Admiral Alexeieff

Nathalie Lissenko as Vera Petrovna

Kinny Dorlay as young gypsy

Alex Bernard as Dr. Alexei Barkoff

André de Schack as Prince Michel Rizine

G. Clein as Dr. Chouvaloff

Behrs as Prince Heridze

References

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Films directed by Marcel L'Herbier

Films shot at Billancourt Studios

Films based on French novels

1930 drama films

French drama films

Films set in Paris

1930s French-language films

1930s French films