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. 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.
It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alexandre Lochakoff and Vladimir Meingard.
Synopsis
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.
Cast
Gina Falckenberg as Helene
Peter Voß as Petroff
René Deltgen as Fedor
Marina Shubert as Vera
Alexander Engel as Wronski
Hubert von Meyerinck as Ricin
Nicolas Koline as Schuwaloff
Eva Tinschmann as Mme. Mesureux
Katja Bennefeld as Secretary
Hertha Windschild as Yvette
References
Bibliography
Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.