Fateful Nights

Country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1928

Production year

1928

Premiere

3 May 1929

Runtime

83 min

Category

film

Genre

drama

Typology

featuretheatrical distributionlong

Film state

lost film

Original title

Osudné noci

Czech title

Osudné noci

English title

Fateful Nights

Synopsis

An attic room becomes a revue stage. From a match-girl a star is born. Another girl, who worked in a brothel, becomes the wife of a millionaire. These are the fates which unfold in a colourful drama. Hear what Gina Biani says of these three fateful nights which changed her whole life: "I lived a miserable existence with a drunken man who sold me to a house of ill-fame, I became the wife of a millionaire who left me. I excelled on the stage which means the whole world to me, so that I would then be struck by the bullit of a scoundrel from whose clutches I was wrenched. Now I am the happiest woman in the world." (According to promotional material issued at the time the film was made.)

Note

The film materials are believed lost.

Cast

Jan W. Speerger

majitel veřejného domu Plant

Josef Rovenský

opilec Ferrari

Kitty Barling

opilcova svěřenka Gina

Božena Svobodová

paní Steplerová

Theodor Pištěk

komerční rada, návštěvník salónu

Jan S. Kolár

policejní komisař

Walter Slezak

kapelník Bellini

Hugh Douglas

Hertha von Walther

Crew and creators

Based on

Walter Hauff (Vražda primadony – román)

Screenplay

Walter Hauff

Director of Photography

Georg Krause

Production Designer

Alois Mecera

Production info

Original Title

Osudné noci

Czech Title

Osudné noci

English Title

Fateful Nights

Category

film

Typology

featuretheatrical distribution

Film state

lost film

Genre

drama

Origin country

Czechoslovakia

Copyright

1928

Production Year

1928

Premiere

premiere 3 May 1929 /unsuitable for youths/ (kina Radio /1 týden/ a Světozor /1 týden/, Praha)

Production

AB

Copyright Holders

Národní filmový archiv

Distribution

Lloydfilm

Technical info

Duration typology

feature film

Duration in minutes

83 min

Original length in metres

2 350 meters

Distribution carrier

35mm

Aspect ratio

1:1,33

Colour

black & white

Sound

silent

Versions

Czech

Dialogue languages

without dialogue

Subtitles languages

without subtitles

Intertitles languages

Czech

Opening/End credits languages

Czech