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Directed by | Georges Franju |
Screenplay by | Jacques Champreaux [1] |
Produced by | Raymond Froment [1] |
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Cinematography | Guido Renzo Bertoni [1] |
Edited by | Gilbert Natot [1] |
Music by | Georges Franju |
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Distributed by | Planfilm [2] |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
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Language | French [4] |
Nuits Rouges (lit. Red Nights, in French) is a 1974 French-Italian crime 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. It is an adaptation of a 1973 French-Italian-Yugoslav TV mini-series titled "L'Homme sans visage" (The Man Without a Face). [5]
Paul de Borrego is a scholar whose field of research is the history of Templars. His discoveries are used by a criminal organisation led by the mysterious Faceless Man to help the latter expand his army of killers composed of people with dead brains.
Nuits Rouges was filmed in 1973. [6] The film is a 100-minute theatrical version of a film originally commissioned for television. [6] The budget for the film was so modest that Franju had to film all interiors of the film on a studio set. [7]
Jacques Champreux (Louis Feuillade's grandson [8] ) who plays one the lead roles, had directed the series that inspired the film. He also had worked on Franju's Judex , which was also based on a film series. [9]
Nuits Rouges is Franju's last feature film. [10]
Nuits Rouges was released on November 20, 1974, in France. [11]
Nuits Rouges received mixed and even mocking reviews from French critics on its release. [12] 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. [13]