One Night's Song

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One Night's Song
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Directed by Pierre Colombier
Anatole Litvak
Written by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Albrecht Joseph
Irma von Cube
Produced by Arnold Pressburger
Gregor Rabinovitch
William A. Szekeley
Starring Jan Kiepura
Magda Schneider
Pierre Brasseur
Cinematography Robert Baberske
Willy Goldberger
Fritz Arno Wagner
Edited by Francis Salabert
Music by Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Mischa Spoliansky
Production
company
Distributed by Les Films Osso
Release date
  • 3 February 1933 (1933-02-03)
Running time
85 minutes
CountriesFrance
Germany
LanguageFrench

One Night's Song (French: La chanson d'une nuit) is a 1933 musical film directed by Pierre Colombier and Anatole Litvak and starring Jan Kiepura, Magda Schneider and Pierre Brasseur. [1] [2] It was a co-production between Germany and France. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin alongside the German The Song of Night . A separate English-language version Tell Me Tonight was also produced.

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Synopsis

Celebrated opera singer Enrico Ferraro is overwhelmed by his fame and tired of every aspect of his daily life being controlled by his manager. He heads to the French Riviera for a break and there encounters Koretzky, a man who strongly resembles him. He engages Koretzky to act as his double but complications soon arise.

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Critical reception

A review in the film magazine Pour Vous considered it "tasteful cinema, light-heartedness and good humor without any vulgarity" while other reviewers praised Anatole Litvak's direction. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Bessy & Chirat p.304
  2. ↑ Crisp p.393
  3. ↑ Capua p.124

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