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Les bas-fonds (1936)
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10 September 1937 (USA)
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The winner of the Louis Delluc Prize as the most outstanding French photo-play of 1936, as selected...
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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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USA:90 min | France:95 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Tobis-Klangfilm)
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Cameo: [Jacques Becker]a silhouette.
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Featured in Il mio viaggio in Italia (1999)
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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.