The marvellous Night

the marvellous Night is a French film carried out by Jean-Paul Paulin in 1940

Summary

The evening of Christmas 1940, two refugees push a small cart on a road of the South of France. He is cabinetmaker and it awaits a child. Driven out of all the crammed hotels of world, they fail in a cattle shed lent by a couple of country brave men. It is confined at midnight, between an ass and an ox, taken care by a shepherd. Then three travellers come to offer to the newborn some personal memories, everyone finally will go to the midnight mass.

Data sheet

Realization: Jean-Paul Paulin
Scenario, Adaptation and Dialog: Andre-Paul Antoine
Images: Christian Matras
Assembly: Henri Taverna
Decorations: Gilbert Grassin
Production: Prodiex/Directing Barthès
of production: D. Bousseau
Film 35mm, black and white
Kind: Drama
Lasted: 70mn
Turning in December 1940 in Marseilles
First presentation the 12/24/1940 in Vichy and the 12/22/1948 in Paris

Distribution

Fernandel : The shepherd
Janine Darcey: The young woman
Jean Daurand: The husband
Jean Aquistapace: The sailor, a traveller
Charles Vanel: The farmer
Milly Mathis: The country-woman
Edouard Delmont: The old shepherd
Madeleine Robinson: The refugee
Jacques Erwin: The blacksmith
Rene Fleur: The explorer
Charlotte Clasis: The maidservant
Fernand Charpin: The landlord
Jane Marken: Hotel the
Wanny
Couty Bonneval

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