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Title: The Lower Depths (1936)
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| Jean Gabin | ... | Pepel Wasska | |
| Suzy Prim | ... | Vassilissa Kostyleva | |
| Louis Jouvet | ... | Le baron | |
| Jany Holt | ... | Nastia | |
| Vladimir Sokoloff | ... | Kostylev | |
| Robert Le Vigan | ... | L'acteur alcoolique | |
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Camille Bert | ... | Le comte |
| René Génin | ... | Louka - le philosophe (as René Genin) | |
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Paul Temps | ... | Satine - le télégraphiste |
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Robert Ozanne | ... | Jabot de Travers |
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Henri Saint-Isle | ... | Klestch - le cordonnier (as Saint-Iles) |
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Alex Allin | ... | Tatar |
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André Gabriello | ... | Toptoun - l'inspecteur des garnis |
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Léon Larive | ... | Felix - le valet du baron |
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Nathalie Alexeeff | ... | Anna - un pauvresse qui se meurt |
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The winner of the Louis Delluc Prize as the most outstanding French photo-play of 1936, as selected by the Young Independent Critics of France (an organization and not a description.) The film treats the imprisoning hold of poverty; the disheartening odds of people rising from such social despair, and the ease in which those in the upper spheres of Society may descend. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
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Wasska Pepel: Stop it.
Vassilissa Kostyleva: You don't love me anymore. Why not?
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This film is part of the Criterion Collection, which is included with The Lower Depths (1957), spine #239. See more »Goofs
As Kostylev lies dead on the anvil, the shadow of the camera can be seen approaching on the ground. See more »Quotes
Vassilissa Kostyleva: One day, everything will be ours. We'll go away together. To live the good life where no one knows us.Wasska Pepel: Stop it.
Vassilissa Kostyleva: You don't love me anymore. Why not?
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Seeing Maxim Gorky's play about the lowest level of society is an ultra- depressing depressing experience. Everyone is miserable and wretched and the entire production is filled with people who are complete messes. However, in this movie version, director Jean Renoir manages to make the film watchable and quite watchable! How does he do this? Well, he did a great job directed, got some wonderful performances AND used a script that changed the original play--giving it a hopeful and relatively happy ending!! While I usually would never want to see this (such as how they gave happy endings in "The Hairy Ape" and the recent version of "The Scarlet Letter"), in this it was a good thing! Giving the audience something to hope for makes this well worth seeing--not an exercise in masochism! All in all, extremely well made and the best version of the Gorky story I have seen.