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The Night Belongs to Us

The Night Belongs to Us (), released in English as The Night Is Ours or The Night Belongs to Us, is a 1929 German sports romance sound film directed by Carl Froelich and Henry Roussel, and starring Hans Albers, Charlotte Ander, and Otto Wallburg.

Production

The film was based on a 1925 play by Henry Kistemaeckers. Art direction was by Franz Schroedter. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios. The film's exterior scenes were shot on location in Sicily on the course of the Targa Florio and at the AVUS racetrack in Berlin, and was one of the first German sound films to be released during the transition from silent to sound.

It used the Tri-Ergon sound-on-film process marketed through Tobis Film; the sound recording was supervised by , one of the inventors of Tri-Ergon, and , who had been involved with sound films since 1925 when UFA's (The Little Match Girl) met with technical failure at the première.

The Night Belongs to Us premiered at the Capitol am Zoo cinema, Berlin on 23 December 1929.

A separate French language version The Night Is Ours was also released, directed by Roger Lion.

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