Golden Night (1976)
"Nuit d'or" (original title)

Director:

Serge Moati

Writers:

Françoise Verny (scenario), Serge Moati (scenario)

Stars:

Bernard Blier, Klaus Kinski, Marie Dubois

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Bernard Blier	...	Commissaire Pidoux
Klaus Kinski	...	Michel Fournier
Marie Dubois	...	Véronique
Jean-Luc Bideau	...	Henri Fournier
Charles Vanel	...	Charles Fournier
Anny Duperey	...	Andrée
Elisabeth Flickenschildt	...	Anna, la mère de Michel
Raymond Bussières	...	Charron, un joueur
Valérie Pascale	...	Catherine, la petite fille
Maurice Ronet	...	Nuit d'or
Catherine Arditi	...	Marie
Martine de Breteuil	...	La femme sur le banc public
Jean-Pierre Sentier	...	L'indicateur au parking
Robert Bury
Herta Gaupmann	...	(as Herta Gaupman)

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

attempted suicide | night | voodoo doll | surrealism | paris france | 

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Genres:

Drama | Crime

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Details

Country:

France West Germany

Language:

French

Release Date:

October 1976 (France)

Also Known As:

Golden Night

Company Credits

Production Co:

Euro-France Films, France 3 (FR 3), Maran Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

78 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

User Reviews

Forgotten surreal masterpiece!

This thriller was no big hit, nor in terms of a Klaus Kinski movie neither as a successful seventies thriller. This French-German co-production tells the story of a maniac who survives a suicide attempt and tries to kill his relatives one after another to take his revenge.

The story is mean, but the settings, the photography and the colors are great. The backgrounds consist of dark old houses in Paris, streets at night and surreal colored interiors, like a mixture of the German Edgar Wallace movies in the sixties and Dario Argento's Italian giallos. The colors are really "washed out", and I have never seen such a blurred and pale movie.

There are also some really shocking scenes, like a bound, gagged and hanged schoolgirl in a kitchen room or an old Lady with heavy make-up humiliating a dwarf - scenes like from a Bunuel or Fellini movie. Check out this rather unknown surreal thriller with a fanatic and possessed Klaus Kinski!