Nussenbaum's film debuts with 'When Night Falls'
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- Adrien Nussenbaum launched Palatio Films, a new production company, and its Cannes debut is the WWII drama “When Night Falls” starring Daniel Auteuil.
- When Night Falls is set in August 1942 during the Vichy roundup of foreign Jews, featuring Antoine Reinartz as a civil servant and Daniel Auteuil as Abbé Alexandre Glasberg.
- When Night Falls was produced on a budget of just under €6 million, with producer Frédéric Jouve of Les Films Velvet attached.
- Palatio Films is developing additional projects, including “Les Souvenirs Inachevés” about a real‑estate executive and “Les Accords Retrouvés,” a father‑daughter road movie on teenage mental health.
- Mirakl, the e‑commerce platform co‑founded by Nussenbaum, was recently valued at over $3.5 billion, and Nussenbaum stepped back from its operational role to focus on film production.
Why it matters: Nussenbaum's Palatio Films adds a tech‑backed production house to French cinema, delivering a €6 m WWII drama at Cannes and lining up further projects on memory, mental health and identity, strengthening the industry's creative pipeline.
