''Dawn Devils'' (French: ''Les démons de l'aube'') is a 1946 French

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directed by

Yves Allégret Yves Allégret (13 October 1905 – 31 January 1987) was a French film director, often working in the film noir genre. He was born in Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine and died in Paris. He was an assistant to film directors such as his brothe ...

and starring

Georges Marchal Georges Marchal (10 January 1920 – 28 November 1997) was a French actor. Born Georges Louis Lucot in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France, the strikingly handsome Marchal was discovered in the early-1940s by director Jean Grémillon. By the earl ...

André Valmy André Valmy (8 October 1919 – 18 November 2015) was a French film actor. He was born André Antoine Marius Dugenet in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1940 and 2001. He is also known in France to ...

Dominique Nohain Dominique Nohain (8 July 1925 – 30 May 2017) was a French actor, dramatist, screenwriter and theatre director. He was the son of Jean Nohain and thus cousin with Jean-Claude Dauphin. Biography In 1944, he joined the Leclerc Division and ...

and

Jacqueline Pierreux Jacqueline Pierreux (15 January 1923 – 10 March 2005) was a French film and television actress.Philip Mosley p.105 From the early 1970s onwards she also enjoyed success as a producer. She was the wife of screenwriter Pierre Léaud and the moth ...

.Rège p.9 It was shot at the Victorine Studios in

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. The film's sets were designed by the art director

Georges Wakhévitch Georges Wakhévitch (russian: Георгий Леонидович Вахевич; Georgy Leonidovich Vakhevich; August 18, 1907 in Odessa, Russian Empire – February 11, 1984 in Paris) was a Russian-born French art director. The son of a naval ...

Cast

as Lieutenant Claude Legrand *

as Serge Duhamel *

as Simon dit Chouchou *

as Simone *

Marcel Lupovici Marcel may refer to: People * Marcel (given name), people with the given name Marcel * Marcel (footballer, born August 1981), Marcel Silva Andrade, Brazilian midfielder * Marcel (footballer, born November 1981), Marcel Augusto Ortolan, Brazilian s ...

as Michel Courant *

Jean Carmet Jean Carmet (25 April 1920 – 20 April 1994) was a French actor. Life and career Jean Carmet began working on stage and then in film in the early 1940s becoming a very popular comedic actor in his native country. He is best known internati ...

as Durand, dit Durandal *

René Clermont René Clermont (14 November 1921 – 24 October 1994) was a French stage and film actor as well as a playwright. Theatre Comedian *1933: ''Trois pour 100'' by Roger Ferdinand, directed by Gabriel Signoret, Théâtre Antoine as Barbouin *194 ...

as Un des commandos * Joé Davray as Fillette *

Jacques Dynam Jacques Dynam (30 December 1923 – 12 November 2004) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1942 and 2004, among which the ''Fantomas'' saga. Selected filmography * ''La symphonie fantastique'' (1942) - (uncre ...

as Gauthier *

Raymond Hermantier Raymond Hermantier (13 January 1924 – 11 February 2005) was a French actor, born in Lyon, France as Raymond Maroutian. Raymond Hermantier aspired to act since the age of 17. His training was interrupted by World War II during which he served i ...

as Un des commandos *

Marcel Mérovée Marcel may refer to: People * Marcel (given name), people with the given name Marcel * Marcel (footballer, born August 1981), Marcel Silva Andrade, Brazilian midfielder * Marcel (footballer, born November 1981), Marcel Augusto Ortolan, Brazilian s ...

as Rousseau *

Jean Pommier Jean Joseph Marie Vincent Pommier (1893–1973) was a French literary scholar. He held a chair at the Collège de France from 1946 to 1964, where he succeeded Paul Valéry. Pommier was a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques ...

as Denis *

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as Gaston de Chanteloup *

Robert Rollis Robert Rollis (16 March 1921 - 6 November 2007) was a French actor. He mainly starred as a film actor, but also appeared in television and also in theatre in the 1950s and early 1960s. Amongst many roles, he starred in Yves Robert's '' War of th ...

as Blot *

Maurice Régamey Maurice Régamey (1924–2009) was a Polish-born French actor and film director.Rège p.96 Selected filmography * ''The Idiot'' (1946) * ''Maya'' (1949) * ''Cartouche, King of Paris'' (1950) * ''Old Boys of Saint-Loup'' (1950) * ''Lady Paname'' (1 ...

as Martin *

Henri San Juan Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name Henry. People with this given name ; French noblemen :'' See the ' List of rulers named Henry' for Kings of France named Henri.'' * Henri I de Mont ...

as Un des commandos *

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as Jaloux *

Fernand René Fernand is a masculine given name of French origin. The feminine form is Fernande. Fernand may refer to: People Given name * Fernand Augereau (1882–1958), French cyclist * Fernand Auwera (1929–2015), Belgian writer * Fernand Baldet (1885– ...

as Le père Poilu *

Jean-François Martial Jean-François Martial (12 September 1891 – 18 October 1977) was a Belgian actor who appeared in mostly French films beginning in the silent film era of the early 1910s until his retirement in the early 1960s. Born Martial Joseph Ghislain Fo ...

as Un officier allemand *

Simone Signoret Simone Signoret (; born Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker; 25 March 1921 – 30 September 1985) was a French actress. She received various accolades, including an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, a César Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and ...

as Lily, la cabaretière

References

Bibliography

* Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. ''Histoire du cinéma français: encyclopédie des films, 1940–1950''. Pygmalion, 1986 * DeMaio, Patricia A. ''Garden of Dreams: The Life of Simone Signoret''. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2014. * Rège, Philippe. ''Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1''. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

* 1946 films French war drama films 1946 drama films 1940s French-language films Films directed by Yves Allégret French black-and-white films 1940s French films Films set in Tunisia Gaumont Film Company films Films shot at Victorine Studios Films scored by Arthur Honegger Films scored by Arthur Hoérée {{1940s-France-film-stub