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Venetian Nights

1931 film

Pierre Billon
Robert Wiene

Written by

Alexander Engel
Ladislaus Vajda
Andor Zsoldos

Starring

Janine Guise
Germaine Noizet
Roger Tréville

Music byMax Niederberger

Production
company

Greenbaum Film

Release date

January 1931CountryGermanyLanguageFrench

Venetian Nights (French: Nuits de Venise) is a 1931 German French-language operetta film directed by Pierre Billon and Robert Wiene and starring Janine Guise, Germaine Noizet and Roger Tréville. It was an alternative-language version of the 1931 film The Love Express, made at the Emelka Studios in Munich.

Synopsis

After winning a cash prize in a contest a young woman decides to visit Venice. She hires a secretary, a wealthy young man in disguise, to accompany her on the holiday. Once in Italy she attracts several suitors but her real love is her secretary. When she discovers he has deceived her she returns to Berlin on the express and he pursues her to try and declare his love.^[1]

Cast

Janine Guise
Germaine Noizet
Roger Tréville
Florelle
Lucien Callamand
Max Maxudian as Le baron étranger
Pierre Nay
E. Danelli

References

^ Jung & Schatzberg p.164-165

Bibliography

Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene. Berghahn Books, 1999.

External links

Venetian Nights at IMDb

Films directed by Pierre Billon

Venetian Nights (1931)
Should We Wed Them? (1932)
The Fakir of the Grand Hotel (1934)
The House on the Dune (1934)
Bourrasque (1935)
Second Bureau (1935)
In the Service of the Tsar (1936)
Southern Mail (1937)
The Silent Battle (1937)
The Inevitable Monsieur Dubois (1943)
Vautrin (1943)
Mademoiselle X (1945)
The Eternal Husband (1946)
Ruy Blas (1948)
Agnes of Nothing (1950)
Chéri (1950)
Farewell Mister Grock (1950)
My Friend Oscar (1951)
My Seal and Them (1951)
The Merchant of Venice (1953)
Storm (1954)
Suspicion (1956)
Until the Last One (1957)

v t e Films directed by Robert Wiene
1910s	He This Way, She That Way (1914) The Canned Bride (1915) Frau Eva (1916) The Queen's Love Letter (1916) The Queen's Secretary (1916) The Wandering Light (1916) The Robber Bride (1916) Lehmann's Honeymoon (1916) The Man in the Mirror (1917) Life Is a Dream (1917) Steadfast Benjamin (1917) Fear (1917)
1920s	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) The Three Dances of Mary Wilford (1920) Genuine (1920) The Night of Queen Isabeau (1920) Panic in the House of Ardon (1920) A Woman's Revenge (1921) Playing with Fire (1921) The Infernal Power (1922) Raskolnikow (1923) The Doll Maker of Kiang-Ning (1923) I.N.R.I. (1923) The Hands of Orlac (1924) Boarding House Groonen (1925) The Guardsman (1925) Der Rosenkavalier (1926) The Queen of Moulin Rouge (1926) The Mistress (1927) The Famous Woman (1927) The Woman on the Rack (1928) Leontine's Husbands (1928) The Great Adventuress (1928) Folly of Love (1928)
1930s	The Other (1930) The Prosecutor Hallers (1930) The Love Express (1931) Venetian Nights (1931) Panic in Chicago (1931) Typhoon (1933) A Night in Venice (1934) Ultimatum (1938)