After Midnight (1938 film)

After Midnight (German: Ab Mitternacht) is a 1938 French-German drama film directed by Carl Hoffmann and starring Gina Falckenberg, Peter Voß and René Deltgen. It was shot as a German-language version of the French film Nights of Princes, produced as a co-production between the French subsidiary of Tobis Film and the producer Joseph N. Ermolieff. Such multiple-language versions were common during the decade. Both films were based on the 1927 novel Nights of Princes by Joseph Kessel.

After Midnight
Directed by	Carl Hoffmann
Written by	Joseph N. Ermolieff Walter Zerlett-Olfenius
Based on	Nights of Princes by Joseph Kessel
Produced by	Herbert Engelsing Joseph N. Ermolieff
Starring	Gina Falckenberg Peter Voß René Deltgen
Cinematography	Karl Löb
Edited by	Carl Forcht
Music by	Michel Michelet
Production companies	Ermolieff Films Tobis Film
Distributed by	Tobis Film
Release date	8 April 1938 (1938-04-08)
Running time	78 minutes
Countries	France Germany
Language	German

It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alexandre Lochakoff and Vladimir Meingard.

Synopsis

Helene performs in a Paris nightclub run by White Russian exiles. When her husband, an engineer she believed had died in the Russian Civil War, reappears she tries to assist him. However, this opens her to blackmail by her dancing partner Fedor.

Cast

• Gina Falckenberg as Helene
• Peter Voß as Petroff
• René Deltgen as Fedor
• Marina Shubert as Vera
• Alexander Engel as Wronski
• Hubert von Meyerinck as Ricin
• Nicolas Koline as Schuwaloff
• Eva Tinschmann as Mme. Mesureux
• Katja Bennefeld as Secretary
• Hertha Windschild as Yvette

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

• After Midnight at IMDb