The Night Belongs to Us
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The Night Belongs to Us (German: Die Nacht gehört uns), released in English as The Night Is Ours or The Night Belongs to Us, is a 1929 German sports romance film directed by Carl Froelich and Henry Roussel, and starring Hans Albers, Charlotte Ander, and Otto Wallburg.
Production
[edit]The film was based on a 1925 play by Henry Kistemaeckers. Art direction was by Franz Schroedter. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios. The film's exterior scenes were shot on location in Sicily and the AVUS racetrack in Berlin, and was one of the first German sound films to be released during the transition from silent to sound.[1] A separate French language version The Night Is Ours was also released, directed by Roger Lion.
Cast
[edit]- Hans Albers as Harry Bredow
- Charlotte Ander as Bettina Bang
- Otto Wallburg as Vater Bang
- Walter Janssen as Herr Marten
- Ida Wüst as Dame der Gesellschaft
- Lucie Englisch as Dame der Gesellschaft
- Berthe Ostyn as Frau Bredow
- Julius Falkenstein as Lawyer
- Roberto Vittiglio
- Ilse Nast
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22069-0.
External links
[edit]Categories:
- 1929 films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- 1920s romance films
- 1920s sports films
- German romance films
- German sports films
- 1920s German-language films
- Films directed by Carl Froelich
- German films based on plays
- Transitional sound films
- Films set in Berlin
- Films set in Italy
- Films shot in Berlin
- Films shot in Italy
- German auto racing films
- German multilingual films
- Films shot at Tempelhof Studios
- German black-and-white films
- 1920s multilingual films
- 1920s German films
- Silent sports films
- Films scored by Franz Grothe
- Films scored by Hanson Milde-Meissner
- 1920s German film stubs
- Sports film stubs