{{Infobox film | name = Europe by Night | image = | alt = | caption = | native_name = <!-- {{Infobox name module|language|title}} or {{Infobox name module|title}} --> | director = Alessandro Blasetti | writer = Ennio De Concini<br>Gualtiero Jacopetti | screenplay = | story = | based_on = <!-- {{Based on|title of the original work|creator of the original work|additional creator(s), if necessary}} --> | producer = | starring = | narrator = | cinematography = Gábor Pogány | editing = Mario Serandrei | music = Carlo Savina | studio = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1959}} | runtime = 102 mins | country = Italy | language = | budget = | gross = }}
'''''Europe by Night''''' ({{Langx|it|Europa di notte}}) is a 1959 Italian documentary film directed by Alessandro Blasetti.
==Premise== A tour of the nightlife in Rome, Paris, London, Madrid, Vienna, Brussels and more.
It features Coccinelle, one of the showgirls at ''Le Carrousel de Paris'', a cabaret known for troupe of transgender performers.<ref>{{Cite book |last=McLelland |first=Mark |url=https://doi.org/10.5771/9781461641605 |title=Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age |date=2005 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |isbn=978-1-4616-4160-5}}</ref> ==Reception== It grossed $450,000 in Italy.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|title=Two Yank-Italo Pix Italian hits|url=https://archive.org/details/variety215-1959-07/page/n261/mode/1up?|page=14|date=22 July 1959}}</ref> Together with Luigi Vanzi's ''World By Night'', it is considered precursor and main inspiration for the Mondo film genre.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bayman |first1=L. |last2=Rigoletto |first2=S. |title=Popular Italian Cinema |date=17 January 2013 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-137-30565-7 |page=230 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Ritzenhoff |first1=Karen A. |last2=McAvoy |first2=Catriona |title=Selling Sex on Screen: From Weimar Cinema to Zombie Porn |date=16 July 2015 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-4422-5354-4 |page=112 |language=en}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *{{IMDB title|id=52791}} *[https://letterboxd.com/film/european-nights/ ''European Nights''] at Letterbox DVD Category:1959 Italian films Category:Italian documentary films Category:Films directed by Alessandro Blasetti Category:Films scored by Carlo Savina Category:1959 documentary films