EXCLUSIVE: France’s SND has locked pre-sales to key territories for Second World War drama When The Night Falls (La Troisième Nuit), directed by and starring Daniel Auteuil, ahead of the film’s world premiere in Cannes Premiere next month.
It has been sold to Rai Cinema in Italy, Beta Fiction in Spain, Palace Film in Australia and New Zealand, Cineart in Benelux, Nos Lusomundo in Portugal, Spentzos in Greece and Blitz in the Balkans.
Set in 1942, When The Night Falls is based on a true story about ordinary people who become heroes. Antoine Reinartz stars as young civil servant Gilbert Lesage and Auteuil as humanitarian priest Abbé Glasberg, who risked their lives to save children from deportation during the Nazi occupation. Gregory Gadebois and Luana Bajrami co-star.
Reinartz will also be in Cannes, headlining Vincent Garenq’s out-of-competition title L’Abandon, following last year’s Love Me Tender and 2023 Palme d’Or-winning Anatomy Of A Fall.
Gadebois will also be doing double duty at the festival, appearing in Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller’s Women On Trial, making its debut in Special Screenings.
When The Night Falls was shot in Lyon and is produced by Frederic Jouve for Les Films Velvet, the production outfit behind Rebecca Zlotowski’s A Private Life. Co-producers are Palatio Films and La Smala Productions. SND will release the film in France.
Auteuil co-wrote the script with Camille Lugan. It marks the veteran actor’s sixth outing as a director and follows An Ordinary Case which world premiered as a Cannes special screening in 2024.
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