Venetian Nights

Venetian Nights
Directed by	Pierre Billon Robert Wiene
Written by	Alexander Engel Ladislaus Vajda Andor Zsoldos
Starring	Janine Guise Germaine Noizet Roger Tréville
Music by	Max Niederberger
Production company	Greenbaum Film
Release dates	January 1931
Country	Germany
Language	French

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 the Internet Movie Database

The films of Robert Wiene

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)
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)
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)

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