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Nuits Rouges (lit. Red Nights, in French) is a 1974 French-Italian crime thriller film directed by Georges Franju. The film was released in the U.S. in an English-dubbed version by 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).cite-ref-5[5]

• Premise

• Cast

• Production

• Release

• Reception

• Notes

• References

• External links

Paul de Borrego is a scholar whose field of research is the history of Templars. 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.

• Gayle Hunnicutt as the woman

• Jacques Champreux as the Faceless Man

• Josephine Chaplin as Martine Leduc

• Ugo Pagliai as Paul de Borrego

• Gert Froebe as Police commissioner Sorbier

Nuits Rouges was filmed in 1973.cite-ref-ince58-6-0[6] The film is a 100-minute theatrical version of a film originally commissioned for television.cite-ref-ince58-6-1[6] The budget for the film was so modest that Franju had to film all interiors of the film on a studio set.cite-ref-ince59-7-0[7]

Jacques Champreux (Louis Feuillade's grandsoncite-ref-8[8]) who plays one the lead roles, had directed the series that inspired the film. He also had worked on Franju's Judex, which was also based on a film series.cite-ref-9[9]

Nuits Rouges is Franju's last feature film.cite-ref-10[10]

Nuits Rouges was released on November 20, 1974, in France.cite-ref-11[11]

Nuits Rouges received mixed and even mocking reviews from French critics on its release.cite-ref-ince60-61-12-0[12] Nuits Rouges was released on DVD in the United Kingdom as part of Eureka's Masters of Cinema series along with another film by Georges Franju, Judex (1963) in 2008.cite-ref-13[13]

cite-note-11. "Nuits Rouges". BFI Film & Television Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 17, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2013.

cite-note-bfi-credits-22. "Credits". BFI Film & Television Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on February 1, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2013.

cite-note-33. "Nuits rouges (1973) Georges Franju". Bifi.fr (in French). Retrieved November 17, 2013.

cite-note-44. "Release". BFI Film & Television Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on February 1, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2013.

cite-note-55. ↑ citerefbaudoushleret1989Baudou, Jacques; Shleret, Jean-Jacques (1989-12-31). Meurtres en séries : les séries policières de la télévision française (in French). FeniXX réédition numérique. ISBN 978-2-402-09240-1.

cite-note-ince58-66. ↑ Ince, 2005. p. 58

cite-note-ince59-77. ↑ Ince, 2005. p.59

cite-note-88. ↑ "Nuits rouges (Georges Franju, 1973) - La Cinémathèque française". www.cinematheque.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-10-22.

cite-note-99. ↑ citerefince2005Ince, Kate (2005-07-22). Georges Franju. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-6828-7.

cite-note-1010. ↑ citerefbuache1996Buache, Freddy (1996-01-01). Georges Franju : poésie et vérité: Rétrospective G. Franju organisée par le Festival de Belfort-Entrevues, 23 novembre-1er décembre 1996 (in French). FeniXX. ISBN 978-2-307-25154-5.

cite-note-1111. ↑ citereferlewine-iotisErlewine, Iotis. "Nuits Rouges". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 17, 2013.

cite-note-ince60-61-1212. ↑ Ince, 2005. p.60-61

cite-note-1313. ↑ "Nuits rouges". Eureka Video. Archived from the original on May 9, 2013. Retrieved November 17, 2013.

• citerefince-kate2005Ince, Kate (2005). Georges Franju. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-6828-2.

• Nuits Rouges at IMDb