Nile Water

{{short description|1928 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Nile Water | image =Nile Water.jpg | caption = | director = Marcel Vandal | producer = Louis Aubert | writer = Pierre Frondaie (novel) | starring = {{ubl|Jean Murat|Max Maxudian|Lee Parry}} | cinematography = {{ubl|Michel Bernheim|René Guichard|Armand Thirard}} | editing = | studio = Les Films Marcel Vandal et Charles Delac | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1928|10|18|df=yes}} | runtime = | country = France | language = French | budget = }} '''''Nile Water''''' (French: '''''L'eau du Nil''''') is a 1928 French drama film directed by Marcel Vandal and starring Jean Murat, Max Maxudian and Lee Parry. Originally made as a silent film, it subsequently had a musical soundtrack added to it.<ref>Crisp p.103</ref> It was the first French sound film, shot using a system owned by Gaumont. However, the system never took off and American and German technology came to dominate.<ref>Kindem p.197</ref>

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

==Main cast== * Jean Murat as Pierre Levannier * Max Maxudian as Wirsocq * Lee Parry as Anne Marie * René Lefèvre as Arthur de Sorgepoix * Gaston Jacquet as Basil Lescoe * Anita Labartha as Danseuse

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Crisp, C.G. ''The Classic French Cinema, 1930-1960''. Indiana University Press, 1993. * Kindem, Gorham Anders. ''The International Movie Industry''. SIU Press, 2000.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0197422}}

Category:1928 films Category:1928 French-language films Category:Films directed by Marcel Vandal Category:French black-and-white films Category:1928 drama films Category:French drama films Category:Films set in Egypt Category:1928 French films Category:French-language drama films