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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.
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.
Part poetic realism, part film noir, the film is a hard-boiled and suspenseful journey into the tormented psyche of a workingman. 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.
La Bête humaine est un film français réalisé par Jean Renoir, sorti en 1938, adaptation du roman homonyme d'Émile Zola.
Adaptation du roman d'Emile Zola sur un meurtre, un amour et un mal incurable. Avec Jean Gabin, Simone Simon et Fernand Ledoux, un chef-d'oeuvre du cinéma français.
Témoin dans un train d’un meurtre perpétré par le couple Roubaud, Jacques garde le silence par égard pour la belle criminelle, complice de son mari. Sa discrétion lui vaut les faveurs de Séverine Roubaud.
La Bête humaine is arguably the most conventional of the films that Jean Renoir made in the 1930s - a familiar crime melodrama offering the obligatory love triangle and some pretty gruesome killings (which conveniently take place out of camera-shot).
