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Cette nuit est notre nuit

Original title: Tovarich
  • 1937
  • Approved
  • 1h 38m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
662
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Charles Boyer and Claudette Colbert in Cette nuit est notre nuit (1937)
Comedy

After the Russian revolution, a married Russian couple of nobility must take up jobs in Paris in order to survive.After the Russian revolution, a married Russian couple of nobility must take up jobs in Paris in order to survive.After the Russian revolution, a married Russian couple of nobility must take up jobs in Paris in order to survive.

  • Director
    • Anatole Litvak
  • Writers
    • Jacques Deval
    • Robert E. Sherwood
    • Casey Robinson
  • Stars
    • Claudette Colbert
    • Charles Boyer
    • Basil Rathbone
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.1/10
    662
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Anatole Litvak
    • Writers
      • Jacques Deval
      • Robert E. Sherwood
      • Casey Robinson
    • Stars
      • Claudette Colbert
      • Charles Boyer
      • Basil Rathbone
    • 15User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins total

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    Claudette Colbert
    Claudette Colbert
    • Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna Romanov
    Charles Boyer
    Charles Boyer
    • Prince Mikail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff
    Basil Rathbone
    Basil Rathbone
    • Commissar Dimitri Gorotchenko
    Anita Louise
    Anita Louise
    • Helene Dupont
    Melville Cooper
    Melville Cooper
    • Charles Dupont
    Isabel Jeans
    Isabel Jeans
    • Fermonde Dupont
    Morris Carnovsky
    Morris Carnovsky
    • Chauffourier Dubieff
    Victor Kilian
    Victor Kilian
    • Gendarme
    Maurice Murphy
    Maurice Murphy
    • Georges Dupont
    Gregory Gaye
    Gregory Gaye
    • Count Frederic Brekenski
    Montagu Love
    Montagu Love
    • M. Courtois
    Renie Riano
    Renie Riano
    • Madame Courtois
    • (as Reine Riano)
    Fritz Feld
    Fritz Feld
    • Martelleau
    Heather Thatcher
    Heather Thatcher
    • Lady Kartegann
    May Boley
    May Boley
    • Louise
    Doris Lloyd
    Doris Lloyd
    • Madame Chauffourier-Dubieff
    Curt Bois
    Curt Bois
    • Alfonso
    Ferdinand Munier
    Ferdinand Munier
    • Mr. Van Hemert
    • Director
      • Anatole Litvak
    • Writers
      • Jacques Deval
      • Robert E. Sherwood
      • Casey Robinson
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    10robbiebourget

    An enthusiastic review.

    "Tovarich" was the sort of film Hollywood loved making -- light entertainment, a piece of fluff -- but with a subtle edge lacking in many other films of its era. This is a film that will make you smile, laugh and even choke up a bit. The performances are all brilliant and you would be hard pressed to dislike any character for long, even the 'villain' of the piece. This film even manages to convey its 'message' without being overbearing and destroying the humour. One of my all-time favourites.
    5jordondave-28085

    Sometimes it is hard to enjoy a movie considering what's going on, both during the Stalin era and the Putin era.

    (1937) Tovarich COMEDY

    Adapted from the play by Jacques Deval produced and directed by Anatole Litvak that has Grand Duchess, Tatiana Petrovna Romanov (Claudette Colbert) and her Prince, Mikail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff (Charles Boyer) attempt to elude capture from the Russian Revolution, to prevent returning a large sum of money intended for the Russian cause. They escape to Paris where they pose as butler and maid employed by the Dupont family of Fermonde (Isabel Jeans) and her husband Charles (Melville Cooper) and their two children, Helene (Anita Louise) and Georges (Maurice Murphy). It is not the matter of who's going to discover them but a question of when. The title "Tovarich" as the movie is called is the Russian word for "comrade" or "friend". Basil Rathbone also stars as the Soviet commissar, Dimitri Gorotchenko.

    Sometimes it is hard to enjoy a movie considering what's going on, both during the Stalin era and the Putin era.
    5planktonrules

    It's sure hard to give a hoot about these folks, but it is well made.

    "Tovarich" is the story about two members of the Russian royalty who are married and living in exile in France following the Russian Revolution of 1917. Prince Mikail (Charles Boyer) and Grand Duchess Tatiana (Claudette Colbert) are living in poverty and they eat by Tatiana stealing food from the local market....but she doesn't just steal, she steals luxury items like champagne and caviar because, as she sees it, they are above laws that apply to commoners and they NEED caviar and champagne.

    After years of living in squalor, Mikail decides that it's finally time for them to get jobs (you think?!?!?!). You learn all this in the first few minutes of the film...and I found myself thoroughly hating the couple. While I am no fan of the Revolution, rich pigs like this couple were the reason for such a revolution...and the film gives you no reason to look on them positively!

    When they obtain jobs as domestics, the pair are happy and their employers, at first, have no idea their servants are members of royalty. But problems develop when Commissar Grotochenko (Basil Rathbone) comes for dinner, as he represents the new Russian government and he naturally hates royals. What's next? See the film.

    I was very torn while watching this film. I love Boyer and Colbert, they are wonderful here as far as their acting goes. But the problem is the plot...and I mentioned that above. Caring about the communists or royals is a real chore for me....as both sides are very nasty pieces of work. And, it's odd that in the 1930s that apparently Americans were supposed to somehow care about royals...royals who in the 'good old days' killed serfs with complete impunity and watched them starve due to indifference. I normally never get political in my reviews...but it really is difficult to divorce yourself from history with a film like this.

    Overall, this is a slick looking and well acted film about folks I just didn't care about at all. I do think my being an ex-history teacher made watching this much more difficult for me than the average person...most might not realize how truly awful and cruel the Russian royals actually were.
    9madwriter

    This is a delightful and stylish thirties comedy well worth viewing.

    Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer make a delightful team in this stylish thirties comedy. This film is creative and amusing in much the same manner as My Man Godfry. For anyone who enjoys black and white films this will be enjoyable. It has something about it of the grace and style of the old Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers films.
    fsilva

    "Tovarich" means Comrade

    Delightful sophisticated `continental' comedy (kind of a `reverse' Ninotchka), so entertaining indeed, that when it ends you have the feeling that it moved along too swiftly, keeping you wanting at least 30 minutes more of film!

    French born actors, Charles Boyer and Claudette Colbert work together wonderfully well, under Anatole Litvak's very good direction, in this engaging comedy, based upon a french play adapted by Robert E. Sherwood himself, about two penniless members of the highest rank Russian nobility (escaped from the 1917 Russian Revolution) currently living in Paris, who masquerade as commoners in order to be hired as servants of an aristocratic household, full of sort-of-zany and bizarre characters.

    Isabel Jeans and Melville Cooper are perfectly cast as the aristocratic couple, Mr. and Mrs. Dupont, who hire them, absolutely unaware of their new butler's and maid's pedigrees. Basil Rathbone, as always, gives an excellent performance as Comissar Gorotchenko, a very `special' guest at a lavish dinner party arranged by the Duponts, one of the funniest (and at the same time, most dramatic) sequences of the movie.

    Boyer and Colbert are so utterly charming that one does not wonder why the Duponts and both, their daughter and son, are completely conquered and taken by the `undercover' Royal Russians, Prince Mikail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff (Boyer) and Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna Romanov (Colbert), known by them as Michel & Tina.

    This was the third and last pairing of its leading stars, who had previously worked together successfully at Paramount Pictures, in `The Man From Yesterday' (1932) and `Private Worlds' (1935).

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    • Trivia
      This was the first Warner Brothers film to begin with Max Steiner's famous fanfare, which had a bombastic beginning and, by design, no end, as it was meant to transition into the main title of whichever picture it introduced.
    • Quotes

      Tatiana: Do you love your pigeon?

      Mikail: Every feather, my darling!

    • Connections
      Featured in Breakdowns of 1938 (1938)
    • Soundtracks
      Chto Mne Gore
      (uncredited)

      Russian folk song

      Lyrics by Samuel Pokrass

      Sung by Claudette Colbert

      Played as part of the score

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    • Release date
      • December 25, 1937 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Tovarich
    • Filming locations
      • Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Warner Bros.
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    • Budget
      • $1,400,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 38m(98 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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