La Nuit de Sybille (1947)
Directed by Jean-Paul Paulin

Comedy

Film Synopsis

One dark and stormy night, a strange collection of individuals find themselves together in the same building. They include a young person who has just escaped from a reform school, his crooked friend, a shrewd police officer and two burglars. The poor Sibylle is in for a long and eventful evening...
© James Travers
The above content is owned by frenchfilms.org and must not be copied.


Film Credits

  • Director: Jean-Paul Paulin
  • Cast: Paulette Élambert (Sibylle), Lucien Baroux (Chambon), Daniel Gélin (Stany), Pierre Larquey (Ancelin), Odette Barencey (La paysanne), Defresne (Le paysan), Manuel Gary (Jacques)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Black and White
  • Runtime: 90 min

The best of Japanese cinema
sb-img-21
The cinema of Japan is noteworthy for its purity, subtlety and visual impact. The films of Ozu, Mizoguchi and Kurosawa are sublime masterpieces of film poetry.
The brighter side of Franz Kafka
sb-img-1
In his letters to his friends and family, Franz Kafka gives us a rich self-portrait that is surprisingly upbeat, nor the angst-ridden soul we might expect.
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
sb-img-5
At the time of the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII, the German-run company Continental produced some of the finest films made in France in the 1940s.
The best films of Ingmar Bergman
sb-img-16
The meaning of life, the trauma of existence and the nature of faith - welcome to the stark and enlightening world of the world's greatest filmmaker.
The very best fantasy films in French cinema
sb-img-30
Whilst the horror genre is under-represented in French cinema, there are still a fair number of weird and wonderful forays into the realms of fantasy.
 

Other things to look at


Copyright © frenchfilms.org 1998-2024
All rights reserved



All content on this page is protected by copyright