---
title: 'Day for Night (1973)'
type: 'film'
director: 'François Truffaut'
released: '1973-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 115
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'France'
  - 'Italy'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/day-for-night-1973'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070460/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Day for Night (1973)

1973 · 115 min · Drama · France, Italy

Original title: La Nuit américaine

## Synopsis

Day for Night is a 1973 romantic comedy-drama film co-written and directed by François Truffaut. The metafictional and self-reflexive film chronicles the troubled production of a melodrama, and the various personal and professional challenges of the cast and crew. It stars Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Dani, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Léaud and Truffaut himself.

## Credits

- **Director:** [François Truffaut](https://cinepixo.com/people/francois-truffaut)
- **Screenplay:** [François Truffaut](https://cinepixo.com/people/francois-truffaut), [Suzanne Schiffman](https://cinepixo.com/people/suzanne-schiffman), [Jean-Louis Richard](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-louis-richard)
- **Editor:** [Martine Barraqué](https://cinepixo.com/people/martine-barraque)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Georges Delerue](https://cinepixo.com/people/georges-delerue)
- **Producer:** [François Truffaut](https://cinepixo.com/people/francois-truffaut), [Marcel Berbert](https://cinepixo.com/people/marcel-berbert)
- **Director of Photography:** [Pierre-William Glenn](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierre-william-glenn)

## Cast

- [Martine Barraqué](https://cinepixo.com/people/martine-barraque)
- [Xavier Saint-Macary](https://cinepixo.com/people/xavier-saint-macary)
- [Graham Greene](https://cinepixo.com/people/graham-greene)
- [Maurice Séveno](https://cinepixo.com/people/maurice-seveno)
- [Claude Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-miller)
- [Jean Champion](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-champion)
- [David Markham](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-markham)
- [Dani](https://cinepixo.com/people/dani)
- [Niké Arrighi](https://cinepixo.com/people/nike-arrighi)
- [Jean-Pierre Aumont](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-pierre-aumont)
- [Nathalie Baye](https://cinepixo.com/people/nathalie-baye)
- [Jean-Pierre Léaud](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-pierre-leaud)
- [Valentina Cortese](https://cinepixo.com/people/valentina-cortese)
- [Jacqueline Bisset](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacqueline-bisset)
- [Pierre Zucca](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierre-zucca)

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