- One of Claude's romantic dream episodes is set in the Algiers of the 1830 French conquest, where he casts himself as a dashing officer and the Orient furnishes him a compliant harem beauty - the East appearing purely as a fantasy backdrop of veils and seraglios.
Beauties of the Night (1952)
film · also released as: Les Belles De Nuit
- Distributor
- FRANCO-LONDON FILMS
- Cast
- Gerard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida
- Production notes
- D: Rene Clair. Winner of the International Critics Award, Vienna Film Festival