Nuits Rouges

Nuits Rouges is a 1974 French-Italian crime and 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.

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]

Cast

Production

Nuits Rouges was filmed in 1973.[5] The film is a 100-minute theatrical version of a film originally commissioned for television.[5] The budget for the film was so modest that Franju had to film all interiors of the film on a studio set.[6]

Release

Nuits Rouges was released on November 20, 1974, in France.[7]

Reception

Nuits Rouges received mixed and even mocking reviews from French critics on its release.[8] 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.[9]

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. Ince, 2005. p. 58
  6. Ince, 2005. p.59
  7. Erlewine, Iotis. "Nuits Rouges". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
  8. Ince, 2005. p.60-61
  9. "Nuits rouges". Eureka Video. Retrieved November 17, 2013.

References
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