''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
Henry Roussel (1875–1946), also known as Henry Roussell, was a French silent film actor, film director and screenwriter best known for his silent films of the 1910s and 1920s.
He starred in well over 40 films between 1912 and 1939.
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, and starring
Hans Albers,
Charlotte Ander
Charlotte Ander (born Charlotte Andersch, 14 August 1902 – 5 August 1969) was a German actress.
She was born in Berlin, the daughter of German stage/film couple and . Ander was trained at the Berliner Staatstheater. Ander was a star in the ...
, 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 Tempelhof Studios are a film studio located in Tempelhof in the German capital of Berlin. They were founded in 1912, during the silent era, by German film pioneer Alfred Duskes, who built a glass-roofed studio on the site with financial bac ...
. The film's exterior scenes were shot
on location in
Sicily
(man) it, Siciliana (woman)
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and the
AVUS
The Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße ('Automobile traffic and training road'), known as AVUS, is a public road in Berlin, Germany. Opened in 1921, it was also used as a motor racing circuit until 1998. Today, the AVUS forms the northern p ...
racetrack in
Berlin
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, and was one of the first German part-
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
References
Bibliography
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1929 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
1920s romance films
1920s sports films
German romance films
German sports films
1920s German-language films
Films directed by Carl Froelich
German films based on plays
Transitional sound films
Films set in Berlin
Films set in Italy
Films shot in Berlin
Films shot in Italy
German auto racing films
German multilingual films
Films shot at Tempelhof Studios
German black-and-white films
1920s multilingual films
1920s German films
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