![[Book #162120] Promise at Dawn. Jules Dassin, Romain Gary, Samuel A. Taylor, Assi Dayan Melina Mercouri, Didier Haudepin, screenwriter director, novel, play, starring.](https://royalbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/162120.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779269046)
Promise at Dawn
N.p. Avco Embassy Pictures, 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film. Provenance stamp on the verso.
Based on the 1962 play "First Love: A Play in Three Acts" by Samuel Taylor, which was adapted from the 1960 French autobiographical novel "La Promesse de l'aube" by Romain Gary.
Depiction of the the young life of writer Romain Gary, illegitimate son of Soviet silent film actress Nina Kacewa, and their life together in Leningrad, Krakow, and Paris. The last film film to be directed by Hollywood black-listed director Jules Dassin.
Shot on location in Nice and Paris, France, and the USSR.
8 x 10 inches. A tiny bruise in the far bottom margin, else Near Fine.
[Book #162120]
Price: $85.00
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