The Night Is Ours (French: La nuit est à nous) is a 1953 French drama film directed by Jean Stelli and starring Simone Renant, Jean Danet and Jean Murat.Oscherwitz & Higgins p.311Bessy & Chirat p.236https://www.unifrance.org/film/6643/la-nuit-est-a-nous It was a remake of the 1929 German film The Night Belongs to Us. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier.
Synopsis Alain Brécourt, a former pilot during the Second World War, meets Françoise, a young test pilot. The two fall in love but she is disturbed to discover that he is already married to a singer. Despite his assurances that they have separated and there is nothing between them, a distraught Françoise attempts to commit suicide during a flight.
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See also The Night Belongs to Us (1929) The Night Is Ours (1930)
References
Bibliography Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: 1951–1955. Pygmalion, 1989. Oscherwitz, Dayna & Higgins, MaryEllen . The A to Z of French Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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