# Nuits Rouges

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nuits_Rouges
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nuits_Rouges.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuits_Rouges
> Source revision: 1349515483
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

{{Infobox film
| name           = Nuits Rouges
| image          = 1974 Nuits rouges.jpg
 
 
| alt            = 
| caption        = 
| native_name      = 
| director       = [Georges Franju](/source/Georges_Franju)
| producer       = [Raymond Froment](/source/Raymond_Froment)<ref name="bfi-credits" />
| writer         = 
| screenplay     = Jacques Champreaux<ref name="bfi-credits" />
| story          = 
| based_on       = <!-- {{based on|title of the original work|writer of the original work}} -->
| narrator       = 
| starring       = {{plainlist|
*[Gayle Hunnicutt](/source/Gayle_Hunnicutt)
*Jacques Champreux
*[Gert Froebe](/source/Gert_Froebe)
*[Joséphine Chaplin](/source/Jos%C3%A9phine_Chaplin)
*[Ugo Pagliai](/source/Ugo_Pagliai)
}}
| music          = Georges Franju
| cinematography = Guido Renzo Bertoni<ref name="bfi-credits" />
| editing        = Gilbert Natot<ref name="bfi-credits" />
| studio         = {{plainlist|
*Terra Film
*S.O.A.T.<ref name="bfi-credits">{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/44639?view=credit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201143928/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/44639?view=credit|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 1, 2009|work=BFI Film & Television Database|accessdate=November 17, 2013|title=Credits|publisher=[British Film Institute](/source/British_Film_Institute)|location=London}}</ref>}}
| distributor    = Planfilm<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cinema.encyclopedie.films.bifi.fr/index.php?pk=48620|work=Bifi.fr|title=Nuits rouges (1973) Georges Franju|accessdate=November 17, 2013|language=French}}</ref>
| released       = {{Film date|1974|11|20|France}}
| runtime        = 105 minutes
| country        = {{plainlist|
*France
*Italy<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/44639|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090117174345/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/44639|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 17, 2009|work=BFI Film & Television Database|accessdate=November 17, 2013|title=Nuits Rouges|publisher=[British Film Institute](/source/British_Film_Institute)|location=London}}</ref>}}
| language       = French<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/44639?view=release|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201143916/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/44639?view=release|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 1, 2009|work=BFI Film & Television Database|accessdate=November 17, 2013|title=Release|publisher=[British Film Institute](/source/British_Film_Institute)|location=London}}</ref>
| budget         = 
| gross          = 
}}

'''''Nuits Rouges''''' ({{lit.}} Red Nights, in French) is a 1974 French-Italian [crime thriller film](/source/Crime-thriller_film) directed by [Georges Franju](/source/Georges_Franju). The film was released in the U.S. in an [English-dubbed](/source/Dubbing_(filmmaking)) version by [New Line Cinema](/source/New_Line_Cinema) under the title '''''Shadowman''''' in 1975.
It is an adaptation of a 1973 French-Italian-Yugoslav TV mini-series titled "L'Homme sans visage" (The Man Without a Face).<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Baudou |first1=Jacques |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RH5YDwAAQBAJ&dq=Nuits+Rouges+Franju&pg=PT482 |title=Meurtres en séries : les séries policières de la télévision française |last2=Shleret |first2=Jean-Jacques |date=1989-12-31 |publisher=FeniXX réédition numérique |isbn=978-2-402-09240-1 |language=fr}}</ref>

== Premise ==
Paul de Borrego is a scholar whose field of research is the history of [Templars](/source/Knights_Templar). His discoveries are used by a criminal organisation led by the mysterious Faceless Man to help the latter expand his army of killers composed of people with dead brains.

==Cast==
* [Gayle Hunnicutt](/source/Gayle_Hunnicutt) as the woman
* {{ill|Jacques Champreux|fr}} as the Faceless Man
* [Josephine Chaplin](/source/Josephine_Chaplin) as Martine Leduc
* [Ugo Pagliai](/source/Ugo_Pagliai) as Paul de Borrego
* [Gert Froebe](/source/Gert_Froebe) as Police commissioner Sorbier

==Production==
''Nuits Rouges'' was filmed in 1973.<ref name="Ince58">Ince, 2005. p. 58</ref> The film is a 100-minute theatrical version of a film originally commissioned for television.<ref name="Ince58" /> The budget for the film was so modest that Franju had to film all interiors of the film on a studio set.<ref name="Ince59">Ince, 2005. p.59</ref>

Jacques Champreux ([Louis Feuillade](/source/Louis_Feuillade)'s grandson<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nuits rouges (Georges Franju, 1973) - La Cinémathèque française |url=https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/48620.html |access-date=2023-10-22 |website=www.cinematheque.fr |language=fr}}</ref>) who plays one the lead roles, had directed the series that inspired the film. He also had worked on Franju's ''[Judex](/source/Judex_(1963_film))'', which was also [based on a film series](/source/Judex_(1916_film)).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ince |first=Kate |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P7OsMLZjh7IC&dq=Nuits+Rouges+Franju&pg=PA58 |title=Georges Franju |date=2005-07-22 |publisher=[Manchester University Press](/source/Manchester_University_Press) |isbn=978-0-7190-6828-7 |language=en}}</ref>

''Nuits Rouges'' is Franju's last feature film.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Buache |first=Freddy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nGigEAAAQBAJ&dq=Nuits+Rouges+Franju&pg=PT92 |title=Georges Franju : poésie et vérité: Rétrospective G. Franju organisée par le Festival de Belfort-Entrevues, 23 novembre-1er décembre 1996 |date=1996-01-01 |publisher=FeniXX |isbn=978-2-307-25154-5 |language=fr}}</ref>

==Release==
''Nuits Rouges'' was released on November 20, 1974, in France.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/nuits-rouges-v44006|work=[Allmovie](/source/Allmovie)|publisher=[Rovi Corporation](/source/Rovi_Corporation)|title=Nuits Rouges|last=Erlewine|first=Iotis|accessdate=April 17, 2026|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015190633/http://www.allmovie.com/movie/nuits-rouges-v44006|archivedate=October 15, 2012|url-status=usurped}}</ref>

==Reception==
''Nuits Rouges'' received mixed and even mocking reviews from French critics on its release.<ref name="Ince60-61">Ince, 2005. p.60-61</ref> ''Nuits Rouges'' was released on [DVD](/source/DVD) in the [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom) as part of Eureka's [Masters of Cinema](/source/Masters_of_Cinema) series along with another film by [Georges Franju](/source/Georges_Franju), ''[Judex](/source/Judex_(1963_film))'' (1963) in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/nuits-rouges|work=Eureka Video|title=Nuits rouges|accessdate=November 17, 2013|archive-date=May 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509233434/http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/nuits-rouges/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

===References===
* {{cite book | author = Ince, Kate  | title= Georges Franju | publisher= [Manchester University Press](/source/Manchester_University_Press) | year= 2005 | isbn= 0-7190-6828-2}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0069593|Nuits Rouges}}

{{Georges Franju}}

Category:1974 films
Category:Films directed by Georges Franju
Category:French crime thriller films
Category:Italian crime thriller films
Category:1974 French-language films
Category:1974 crime thriller films
Category:1974 French films
Category:1974 Italian films
Category:French-language crime thriller films

{{1970s-France-film-stub}}
{{crime-thriller-film-stub}}

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Nuits Rouges](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuits_Rouges) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuits_Rouges?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.