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    The Lower Depths

    1937 · Drama · 1h 32m

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  1. The Lower Depths (French: Les Bas-fonds) is a 1936 French drama film directed by Jean Renoir and starring Jean Gabin, Suzy Prim and Louis Jouvet. It is based on the 1902 play of the same title by Maxim Gorky. Its scenes contrast the life of the upper and lower classes to comedic effect.

  2. The Lower Depths: Directed by Jean Renoir. With Jean Gabin, Suzy Prim, Louis Jouvet, Jany Holt. A charismatic thief makes friends with a bankrupt baron who comes to live in the thief's slum. Meanwhile the thief seeks the love of a young woman, who is held emotionally captive by her slumlord family.

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    • Crime, Drama, Romance
    • Jean Renoir
    • 1937-09-10
  3. The Lower Depths. Jean Renoir and Akira Kurosawa, two of cinema's greatest directors, transform Maxim Gorky's classic proletariat play The Lower Depths in their own ways for their own times.

    • Pépel (The Thief)
  4. 1936. Jean Renoir and Akira Kurosawa, two of cinema's greatest directors, transform Maxim Gorky's classic proletariat play The Lower Depths in their own ways for their own times. Renoir, working amidst the rise of Hitler and the Popular Front in France, had need to take license with the dark nature of Gorky's source material, softening its ...

  5. Dec 30, 2003. I n 1936 the rise of Hitler in Germany and the Popular Front in France created within the French Left a new sense of solidarity with the Soviet Union. In that context the Russian immigrant producer Alexander Kamenka asked Jean Renoir to direct a film of Maxim Gorky’s play The Lower Depths.

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  7. Fandom. Share. Now Streaming. Watch Now. The Lower Depths (1936) 09/10/1937 (US) Drama , Romance , Crime 1h 32m. User. Score. What's your Vibe ? From the world-famous play by MAXIM GORKI. Overview. Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva.

  8. Summaries. A charismatic thief makes friends with a bankrupt baron who comes to live in the thief's slum. Meanwhile the thief seeks the love of a young woman, who is held emotionally captive by her slumlord family. The winner of the Louis Delluc Prize as the most outstanding French photo-play of 1936, as selected by the Young Independent ...

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