Dans la nuit (film)

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Dans la nuit (English: In the Night) is a 1929 silent film by Charles Vanel.[1][2] The film is a macabre drama about a disfigured worker who wears a mask to hide his face from his unfaithful wife. The producers imposed a happy ending on the film.[3] Louis Sclavis recorded a jazz soundtrack album Dans la nuit for ECM in 2002.[4]

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  1. ^ Julia Eckel, Bernd Leiendecker, Daniela Olek (Dis)Orienting Media and Narrative Mazes 2014 3839423384- Page 262 "Sometimes, those scenarios remain on a rather general level, for example the dream in DANS LA NUIT (France 1929, Charles Vanel), which shows what would happen to a young couple if the husband suffered a disfiguring accident, ..."
  2. ^ Philippe Rège Encyclopedia of French Film Directors - Volume 1 81086939X - 2009
  3. ^ Borger, Lenny (26 April 1989). "Charles Vanel, esteemed character actor, dead at 96". Variety. p. 12.
  4. ^ Jazz Journal International - Page 42 2003 - "Such visual or poetic factors are central to this, his original score for the recently restored version of a classic French film from the end of the silent era, Charles Vanel's 1929 Dans La Nuit. One of the most immediately attractive of Sclavis's .."


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