Europe by Night

Europe by Night
Directed byAlessandro Blasetti
Written byEnnio De Concini
Gualtiero Jacopetti
CinematographyGábor Pogány
Edited byMario Serandrei
Music byCarlo Savina
Release date
  • 1959 (1959)
Running time
102 mins
CountryItaly

Europe by Night (Italian: Europa di notte) is a 1959 Italian documentary film directed by Alessandro Blasetti.

Premise

A tour of the nightlife in Rome, Paris, London, Madrid, Vienna, Brussels and more.

Reception

It grossed $450,000 in Italy.[1] Together with Luigi Vanzi's World By Night, it is considered precursor and main inspiration for the Mondo film genre.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ "Two Yank-Italo Pix Italian hits". Variety. 22 July 1959. p. 14.
  2. ^ Bayman, L.; Rigoletto, S. (17 January 2013). Popular Italian Cinema. Springer. p. 230. ISBN 978-1-137-30565-7.
  3. ^ Ritzenhoff, Karen A.; McAvoy, Catriona (16 July 2015). Selling Sex on Screen: From Weimar Cinema to Zombie Porn. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-4422-5354-4.