Le chevalier de la nuit is a French film realized by Robert Darène, release in 1953.
Personal comments : Louis de Funès is marked in the credits, he plays the role of a tailor, he appears :
Version VHS :
1 minute and 14 seconds at 49 minutes and 8 seconds after the beginning of the movie
Version DVD :
1 minute and 14 seconds at 48 minutes and 29 seconds after the beginning of the movie
♦ Synopsis :
Famous ballerina, Bella Fontanges is not happy any more with her young husband, George de Ségar. One evening of storm, the couple finds refuge in an insulated manor. The lord of the manor, a strange old man, proposes in George to separate in him the good and the evil. The operation succeeds but it is the evil which takes the top. George becomes harder and more cynical with Bella : arguments and fires follow one another then. Finally the good will triumph and George will find the love of his ballerina.
♦ Specification sheet :
- Title : Le chevalier de la nuit
- Realization : Robert Darène
- Scenario : Jean Anouilh
- Adaptation : Jean Anouilh, Robert Darène
- Dialogue : Jean Anouilh
- Production assistants : Georges Lautner, Raymond Meunier
- Images : Roger Hubert, assisted of Max Dulac, René Guissart
- Operator : Adolphe Charlet, assisted of Maw Dulac and René Guissart
- Music : Jean-Jacques Grunenwald (Editions Fortin)
- Ballet : "La symphonie fantastique" of Hector Berlioz, according to the choregraphy of Léonide Massine, adapted by Kiril Vassikovski and René Bon
- Decorations : Robert Gys, assisted of Pierre Duquesne and René Petit
- Suits : Rosine Delamare, assisted of Ferdinand Junker and Maggy Rouff - (R. St-Cyr is dressed by the house Maggy Rouff)
- Editing : Germaine Artus, assisted of Monique André
- Sound : Robert Biart
- Make-up : Yvonne Fortuna
- Hairstyles : Serge Stern and Michel from "Desfossé"
- Photographer of tray : Raymond Heil
- Script-girl : Paule Converset
- General manager : Louis Théron, assisted of Louis Seuret
- Outside manager : Guy Maugin
- Shooting from May 15th till July 3rd, 1953 in the studios Parisien in Billancourt
- Film 35mm, black and white- Sound recording studios Marignan - Laboratory L.T.C Saint-Cloud
- Special effect : Lax
- Production : Telouet Films - Zodiaque Productions (France)
- Leader of production : Renée Saint-Cyr , Adolphe Osso
- Director of production : Maurice Juven
- Producer's assistant : Simone Le Guillon
- Distribution : A.G.D.C
- First presentation the 05/02/1954
- Duration : 88mn
- Genre : Drama
♦ Distribution :
- Louis de Funès : Adrien Perduray, the tailor
- Renée Saint-Cyr : Bella Fontanges, the dancer
- Jean-Claude Pascal : The knight Georges De Ségar and the stranger
- Jean Servais : The feudal lord
- Grégoire Aslan : The prefect of police
- Annette Poivre : Blanche
- François Martin : The viscount of Saint-André, the administrator
- Marie-José Darène : The girl
- Hubert Noël : Raoul, the young man
- Pierre Destailles : The inspector Leblanc
- Jacques Dufilho : Mr Machard, the policeman
- Lily Bontemps : The gommeuse
- Andrée Tainsy : Jeanne, the dresser of Bella
- Charlotte Ecard : The usherette
- Gilbert Edard : The doctor
- Luc Andrieux : The coachman
- Roger Blin : The servant of the feudal lord
- Lucien Raimbourg : The indicator
- Robert Darène : The first doctor
- Roger Vincent : The butler
- René Lefèvre-Bel : The Minister
- Gérard Buhr : The policeman
- Robert Thomas : The fireman of service
- Robert Mercier : The gendarme
- Marcel Rouze
- Jacques Butin
- Claude Arlay
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