Nights of Princes (1930 film)

Nights of Princes
Directed by	Marcel L'Herbier
Written by	Marcel L'Herbier
Based on	Nights of Princes by Joseph Kessel
Starring	Gina Manès Jaque Catelain Harry Nestor
Music by	Michel Michelet
Cinematography	Léonce-Henri Burel Nikolai Toporkoff
Production company	Sequana Films
Distributed by	Films Louis Aubert
Release dates	4 March 1930 (1930-03-04)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

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

External links

• Nights of Princes at IMDb