Jean Gabin
Jacques Lantier
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La bête humaine
1940
- 1940 · Drama · 1h 40m
La Bête Humaine (English: The Human Beast and Judas Was a Woman) is a 1938 French crime drama film directed by Jean Renoir, with cinematography by Curt Courant. The picture features Jean Gabin and Simone Simon , and is loosely based on the 1890 novel La Bête humaine by Émile Zola .
- Jean Renoir, Denise Leblond
La Bête Humaine: Directed by Jean Renoir. With Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux, Blanchette Brunoy. In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.
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- Crime, Drama
- Jean Renoir
- 1940-02-19
La Bête humaine (English: The Beast Within or The Beast in Man) is an 1890 novel by Émile Zola.The story has been adapted for the cinema on several occasions. The seventeenth book in Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart series, it is based on the railway between Paris and Le Havre in the 19th century and is a tense, psychological thriller.
- Émile Zola
- France
- 1890
- French
La bête humaine. Based on the classic Émile Zola novel, Jean Renoir's La bête humaine was one of the legendary director's greatest popular successes—and earned star Jean Gabin a permanent place in the hearts of his countrymen. Part poetic realism, part film noir, the film is a hard-boiled and suspenseful journey into the tormented psyche ...
- Jacques Lantier
La bête humaine (1938) View more photos Movie Info. Synopsis On board a train bound for the port city of Le Havre, France, railroad stationmaster Roubard (Fernand Ledoux) murders Grandmorin ...
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- Jean Gabin
- Jean Renoir
- Drama
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Roubaud is a train conductor on the same railroad that Lantier works on, married to the much younger Séverine. When Roubaud catches wind of his wife's affair with her godfather, the wealthy M. Grandmorin, he kills him during a train journey in a fit of jealousy. He makes sure that Séverine is also present, making her an accomplice to murder.
La Bete Humaine (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Lantier, Le Havre After a prologue, cribbed from the original Emile Zola novel in his Rougon-Macquare cycle, the headlong opening scene from director Jean Renoir, in La Bete Humaine, 1938, much of it shot by the director's nephew Claude, in which Lantier (Jean Gabin) and Pecqueux (Julien Carette) bring their train into Le Havre.
