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Director:
Writers:
Maxim Gorky (play)
Yevgeni Zamyatin (writer) ...
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Release Date:
10 September 1937 (USA) more
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Plot:
The winner of the Louis Delluc Prize as the most outstanding French photo-play of 1936, as selected... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
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Cast

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Jean Gabin ... Wasska Pepel
Suzy Prim ... Vassilissa Kostyleva
Louis Jouvet ... Le baron / The Baron
Jany Holt ... Nastia
Vladimir Sokoloff ... Kostylev
Robert Le Vigan ... The Alcoholic Actor
Camille Bert ... The Count
René Génin ... Louka, the wise old man (as René Genin)
Paul Temps ... Satine
Robert Ozanne ... Jabot de Travers
Henri Saint-Isle ... Kletsch, the cobbler (as Saint-Iles)
Alex Allin
André Gabriello ... The Inspector
Léon Larive ... Felix, le majordomo
Nathalie Alexeeff ... Anna, the dying woman
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Lower Depths (USA) (literal English title)
Underground
Underworld (UK)
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Runtime:
USA:90 min | France:95 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Tobis-Klangfilm)
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Fun Stuff

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Cameo: [Jacques Becker]a silhouette. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Il mio viaggio in Italia (1999) more

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Highly watchable!, 22 August 2006
Author: birthdaynoodle from garbanzo

The Criterion Collection offers two different film versions of "The Lower Depths": one made in 1936 by Jean Renoir and another one made in 1957 by Kurosawa. The two directors never worked together on either film. In fact, they only met once in their lives, many years later. Both films are based on Russian writer Maxim Gorky's 1902 play, which describes life in a miserable slum where most characters have lost all sense of hope. Renoir deals with this serious subject matter in a much more humorous and amusing way than Kurosawa, whose film is slower, decidedly somber and a lot more difficult to digest. While Renoir's work takes the viewer in an out of the slums, Kurosawa doesn't allow one to see beyond the wretchedness of the underworld. Both films are great, but it was probably Kurosawa's which left a more durable and deeper impression on me.

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