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`*`!Nuits Rouges`!`* (lit. Red Nights, in French) is a 1974 French-Italian `F33f`_`[crime thriller film`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Crime-thriller_film]`_`f directed by `F33f`_`[Georges Franju`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Georges_Franju]`_`f. The film was released in the U.S. in an `F33f`_`[English-dubbed`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Dubbing_(filmmaking)]`_`f version by `F33f`_`[New Line Cinema`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=New_Line_Cinema]`_`f 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[`F5bf`_`[5`#cite-note-5]`_`f]

>>Contents

• `F0af`_`[Premise`#premise]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[Cast`#cast]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[Production`#production]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[Release`#release]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[Reception`#reception]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[Notes`#notes]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[References`#references]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[External links`#external-links]`_`f

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>>Premise

Paul de Borrego is a scholar whose field of research is the history of `F33f`_`[Templars`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Knights_Templar]`_`f. 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

• `F33f`_`[Gayle Hunnicutt`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Gayle_Hunnicutt]`_`f as the woman

• Jacques Champreux as the Faceless Man

• `F33f`_`[Josephine Chaplin`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Josephine_Chaplin]`_`f as Martine Leduc

• `F33f`_`[Ugo Pagliai`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Ugo_Pagliai]`_`f as Paul de Borrego

• `F33f`_`[Gert Froebe`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Gert_Froebe]`_`f as Police commissioner Sorbier

>>Production

`*Nuits Rouges`* was filmed in 1973.`:cite-ref-ince58-6-0[`F5bf`_`[6`#cite-note-ince58-6]`_`f] The film is a 100-minute theatrical version of a film originally commissioned for television.`:cite-ref-ince58-6-1[`F5bf`_`[6`#cite-note-ince58-6]`_`f] 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[`F5bf`_`[7`#cite-note-ince59-7]`_`f]

Jacques Champreux (`F33f`_`[Louis Feuillade`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Louis_Feuillade]`_`f's grandson`:cite-ref-8[`F5bf`_`[8`#cite-note-8]`_`f]) who plays one the lead roles, had directed the series that inspired the film. He also had worked on Franju's `*`F33f`_`[Judex`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Judex_(1963_film)]`_`f`*, which was also `F33f`_`[based on a film series`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Judex_(1916_film)]`_`f.`:cite-ref-9[`F5bf`_`[9`#cite-note-9]`_`f]

`*Nuits Rouges`* is Franju's last feature film.`:cite-ref-10[`F5bf`_`[10`#cite-note-10]`_`f]

>>Release

`*Nuits Rouges`* was released on November 20, 1974, in France.`:cite-ref-11[`F5bf`_`[11`#cite-note-11]`_`f]

>>Reception

`*Nuits Rouges`* received mixed and even mocking reviews from French critics on its release.`:cite-ref-ince60-61-12-0[`F5bf`_`[12`#cite-note-ince60-61-12]`_`f] `*Nuits Rouges`* was released on `F33f`_`[DVD`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=DVD]`_`f in the `F33f`_`[United Kingdom`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=United_Kingdom]`_`f as part of Eureka's `F33f`_`[Masters of Cinema`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Masters_of_Cinema]`_`f series along with another film by `F33f`_`[Georges Franju`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Georges_Franju]`_`f, `*`F33f`_`[Judex`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Judex_(1963_film)]`_`f`* (1963) in 2008.`:cite-ref-13[`F5bf`_`[13`#cite-note-13]`_`f]

>>Notes

`:cite-note-1`!1.`! "Nuits Rouges". `*BFI Film & Television Database`*. London: `F33f`_`[British Film Institute`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=British_Film_Institute]`_`f. Archived from the original on January 17, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2013.

`:cite-note-bfi-credits-2`!2.`! "Credits". `*BFI Film & Television Database`*. London: `F33f`_`[British Film Institute`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=British_Film_Institute]`_`f. Archived from the original on February 1, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2013.

`:cite-note-3`!3.`! "Nuits rouges (1973) Georges Franju". `*Bifi.fr`* (in French). Retrieved November 17, 2013.

`:cite-note-4`!4.`! "Release". `*BFI Film & Television Database`*. London: `F33f`_`[British Film Institute`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=British_Film_Institute]`_`f. Archived from the original on February 1, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2013.

`:cite-note-5`!5.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-5]`_`f `:citerefbaudoushleret1989`aBaudou, Jacques; Shleret, Jean-Jacques (1989-12-31). `*Meurtres en séries : les séries policières de la télévision française`* (in French). FeniXX réédition numérique. `F33f`_`[ISBN`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=ISBN_(identifier)]`_`f 978-2-402-09240-1.

`:cite-note-ince58-6`!6.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-ince58-6-0]`_`f Ince, 2005. p. 58

`:cite-note-ince59-7`!7.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-ince59-7-0]`_`f Ince, 2005. p.59

`:cite-note-8`!8.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-8]`_`f "Nuits rouges (Georges Franju, 1973) - La Cinémathèque française". `*www.cinematheque.fr`* (in French). Retrieved 2023-10-22.

`:cite-note-9`!9.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-9]`_`f `:citerefince2005`aInce, Kate (2005-07-22). `*Georges Franju`*. Manchester University Press. `F33f`_`[ISBN`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=ISBN_(identifier)]`_`f 978-0-7190-6828-7.

`:cite-note-10`!10.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-10]`_`f `:citerefbuache1996`aBuache, 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. `F33f`_`[ISBN`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=ISBN_(identifier)]`_`f 978-2-307-25154-5.

`:cite-note-11`!11.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-11]`_`f `:citereferlewine-iotis`aErlewine, Iotis. "Nuits Rouges". `*`F33f`_`[Allmovie`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Allmovie]`_`f`*. `F33f`_`[Rovi Corporation`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Rovi_Corporation]`_`f. Retrieved November 17, 2013.

`:cite-note-ince60-61-12`!12.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-ince60-61-12-0]`_`f Ince, 2005. p.60-61

`:cite-note-13`!13.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-13]`_`f "Nuits rouges". `*Eureka Video`*. Archived from the original on May 9, 2013. Retrieved November 17, 2013.

>>>References

• `:citerefince-kate2005`aInce, Kate (2005). `*Georges Franju`*. `F33f`_`[Manchester University Press`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Manchester_University_Press]`_`f. `F33f`_`[ISBN`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=ISBN_(identifier)]`_`f 0-7190-6828-2.

>>External links

• `*Nuits Rouges`* at `F33f`_`[IMDb`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=IMDb_(identifier)]`_`f

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