Nuits Rouges

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]

Nuits Rouges
Directed byGeorges Franju
Screenplay byJacques Champreaux[1]
Produced byRaymond Froment[1]
Starring
CinematographyGuido Renzo Bertoni[1]
Edited byGilbert Natot[1]
Music byGeorges Franju
Production
companies
  • Terra Film
  • S.O.A.T.[1]
Distributed byPlanfilm[2]
Release date
  • November 20, 1974 (1974-11-20) (France)
Running time
105 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • Italy[3]
LanguageFrench[4]

Premise

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.

Cast

Production

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]

Release

Nuits Rouges was released on November 20, 1974, in France.[11]

Reception

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]

Notes
  1. "Credits". BFI Film & Television Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on February 1, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
  2. "Nuits rouges (1973) Georges Franju". Bifi.fr (in French). Retrieved November 17, 2013.
  3. "Nuits Rouges". BFI Film & Television Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 17, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
  4. "Release". BFI Film & Television Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on February 1, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
  5. Baudou, Jacques; Shleret, Jean-Jacques (1989-12-31). Meurtres en séries : les séries policières de la télévision française (in French). FeniXX réédition numérique. ISBN 978-2-402-09240-1.
  6. Ince, 2005. p. 58
  7. Ince, 2005. p.59
  8. "Nuits rouges (Georges Franju, 1973) - La Cinémathèque française". www.cinematheque.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-10-22.
  9. Ince, Kate (2005-07-22). Georges Franju. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-6828-7.
  10. Buache, Freddy (1996-01-01). Georges Franju : poésie et vérité: Rétrospective G. Franju organisée par le Festival de Belfort-Entrevues, 23 novembre-1er décembre 1996 (in French). FeniXX. ISBN 978-2-307-25154-5.
  11. Erlewine, Iotis. "Nuits Rouges". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
  12. Ince, 2005. p.60-61
  13. "Nuits rouges". Eureka Video. Retrieved November 17, 2013.

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