The Night Belongs to Us

Appearance move to sidebar hide

This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. Find sources: "The Night Belongs to Us" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2020)

The Night Belongs to Us
Directed by	Carl Froelich Henry Roussel
Written by	Henry Kistemaeckers (play) Walter Reisch Walter Supper
Produced by	Carl Froelich
Starring	Hans Albers Charlotte Ander Otto Wallburg Walter Janssen
Cinematography	Reimar Kuntze Charles Métain
Edited by	Wolfgang Loë-Bagier Jean Oser
Music by	Franz Grothe Hanson Milde-Meissner
Production company	Carl Froelich-Film
Distributed by	Bild und Ton GmbH (Germany) Protex Pictures (US)
Release dates	23 December 1929 (1929-12-23) (Germany) 20 February 1931 (1931-02-20) (US)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

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

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. A separate French language version The Night Is Ours was also released, directed by Roger Lion.

Cast

• 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

1. ^ Kreimeier, p. 182.

Bibliography

• 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

• The Night Belongs to Us at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Carl Froelich

Werner Krafft (1916) Ikarus, the Flying Man (1918) The Destiny of Carola van Geldern (1919) The Loves of Käthe Keller (1919) The Dancer (1919) In Thrall to the Claw (1921) Wandering Souls (1921) The Kwannon of Okadera (1921) Island of the Dead (1921) The Brothers Karamazov (1921) Good-for-Nothing (1922) Luise Millerin (1922) Hallig Hooge (1923) The Weather Station (1923) Mother and Child (1924) The Adventures of Sybil Brent (1925) Chamber Music (1925) Tragedy (1925) The Flames Lie (1926) Roses from the South (1926) When She Starts, Look Out (1926) The Long Intermission (1927) My Aunt, Your Aunt (1927) Love in the Cowshed (1928) Lotte (1928) Love and Thieves (1928) Escape (1928) Violantha (1928) The Night Belongs to Us (1929) German Wine (1929) The Woman Everyone Loves Is You (1929) Hans in Every Street (1930) Fire in the Opera House (1930) The Night Is Ours (1930) Louise, Queen of Prussia (1931) Mädchen in Uniform (1931) This One or None (1932) Gitta Discovers Her Heart (1932) Love at First Sight (1932) The Hymn of Leuthen (1933) Ripening Youth (1933) Trouble with Jolanthe (1934) Sergeant Schwenke (1935) I Was Jack Mortimer (1935) The Private Life of Louis XIV (1935) The Dreamer (1936) When the Cock Crows (1936) If We All Were Angels (1936) Such Great Foolishness (1937) Heimat (1938) The Roundabouts of Handsome Karl (1938) The Four Companions (1938) The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky (1939) The Gasman (1941) Wedding in Barenhof (1942) The Buchholz Family (1944) Marriage of Affection (1944) Three Girls Spinning (1950) Stips (1951)

This article related to a German film of the 1920s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

This article about a sports-related film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e