Nuits Rouges

Nuits Rouges
Nuits Rouges
Directed by	Georges Franju
Screenplay by
Produced by	Raymond Froment
Starring	Gayle Hunnicutt; ; Gert Froebe; Joséphine Chaplin;
Cinematography
Edited by	Gilbert Natot
Music by	Georges Franju
Production; companies	Terra Film; S.O.A.T.;
Distributed by	Planfilm
Release date	November 20, 1974 (France);
Running time	105 minutes
Countries	France; Italy;
Language	French

Nuits Rouges is a 1974 French-Italian crime and thriller film directed by Georges Franju. The film was released in the U.S. in an English-dubbed version by New Line Cinema under the title Shadowman in 1975.

Cast[]

Gayle Hunnicutt as La femme
as L'homme sans visage
Josephine Chaplin as Martine Leduc
Ugo Pagliai as Paul de Borrego
Gert Froebe as Le commissaire Sorbier

Production[]

Nuits Rouges was filmed in 1973.^[5] The film is a 100-minute theatrical version of a film originally commissioned for television.^[5] The budget for the film was so modest that Franju had to film all interiors of the film on a studio set.^[6]

Release[]

Nuits Rouges was released on November 20, 1974, in France.^[7]

Reception[]

Nuits Rouges received mixed and even mocking reviews from French critics on its release.^[8] Nuits Rouges was released on DVD in the United Kingdom as part of Eureka's Masters of Cinema series along with another film by Georges Franju, Judex (1963) in 2008.^[9]

Notes[]

^ "Nuits Rouges". BFI Film & Television Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 17, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Credits". BFI Film & Television Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on February 1, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
^ "Nuits rouges (1973) Georges Franju". Bifi.fr (in French). Retrieved November 17, 2013.
^ "Release". BFI Film & Television Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on February 1, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Ince, 2005. p. 58
^ Ince, 2005. p.59
^ Erlewine, Iotis. "Nuits Rouges". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
^ Ince, 2005. p.60-61
^ "Nuits rouges". Eureka Video. Retrieved November 17, 2013.

References[]

Ince, Kate (2005). Georges Franju. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-6828-2.

External links[]

Nuits Rouges at IMDb

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[1] "Nuits Rouges". BFI Film & Television Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 17, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2013.

[bfi-credits-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Credits". BFI Film & Television Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on February 1, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2013.

[3] "Nuits rouges (1973) Georges Franju". Bifi.fr (in French). Retrieved November 17, 2013.

[4] "Release". BFI Film & Television Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on February 1, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2013.

[Ince58-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b Ince, 2005. p. 58

[Ince59-6] Ince, 2005. p.59

[7] Erlewine, Iotis. "Nuits Rouges". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 17, 2013.

[Ince60-61-8] Ince, 2005. p.60-61

[9] "Nuits rouges". Eureka Video. Retrieved November 17, 2013.

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hide v t Films directed by Georges Franju
Documentary films	Blood of the Beasts (1949) Hotel des Invalides (1951) Le Grand Méliès (1952)
Feature films	Head Against the Wall (1958) Eyes Without a Face (1960) Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962) Judex (1963) Thomas the Impostor (1965) The Demise of Father Mouret (1970) Nuits Rouges (1974)