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The Lost Weekend (1945) [NR]

Release Date:
November 29, 1945

Original Title:
The Lost Weekend

Alternate Titles:
Das verlorene Wochenende
Días sin huella
Farrapo Humano
Fin de semana perdido
Forspildte dage
Hameno savvatokyriako
Het vergift
Le week-end perdu
Tuhlattuja päiviä
İtmiş Həftə Sonu
Изгубеният уикенд
Потерянный уик-энд
うしなわれたしゅうまつ
醉乡遗恨
잃어버린 주말

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Paramount Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AT: 12  DE: 12  ES: 12  FR: U  HU: 6  IE: PG  JP: G  KR: 15  NL: AL  US: NR 

Runtime: 101

The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!

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Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.

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Production

Art Direction:
Hans Dreier
A. Earl Hedrick

Assistant Camera:
Harlow Stengel

Assistant Director:
Charles C. Coleman

Construction Coordinator:
Gene Lauritzen

Costume Design:
Edith Head

Director:
Billy Wilder

Director of Photography:
John F. Seitz

Editor:
Doane Harrison

Editorial Manager:
Doane Harrison

Grip:
Fred True

Makeup Artist:
Wally Westmore

Novel:
Charles R. Jackson

Orchestrator:
Sidney Cutner
Leo Shuken

Original Music Composer:
Miklós Rózsa

Producer:
Charles Brackett

Production Manager:
Richard Blaydon
Frank Parmenter

Props:
Jack Colconda

Screenplay:
Charles Brackett
Billy Wilder

Set Decoration:
Bertram C. Granger

Sound Recordist:
Stanley Cooley
Joel Moss

Visual Effects:
Gordon Jennings
Farciot Edouart

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