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La Bête Humaine

Year:

1940

Duration:

100 min

Genres:

Drama

IMDB rate:

7.8

Director:

Jean Renoir

Awards:

1 nomination

Details

Country: France

Release Date: 1940-02-19

Filming Locations: Campagne normande, Seine-Maritime, France

Cast

Actor

Character

Jean Gabin

La Bête Humaine

Simone Simon

Séverine Roubaud

Fernand Ledoux

Roubaud

Blanchette Brunoy

Flore

Gérard Landry

Le fils Dauvergne (as Gerard Landry)

Jenny Hélia

Philomène Sauvagnat (as Jenny Helia)

Colette Régis

Victoire Pecqueux (as Colette Regis)

Claire Gérard

Une voyageuse (as Claire Gerard)

Charlotte Clasis

Tante Phasie, la marraine de Lantier (as Germaine Clasis)

Jacques Berlioz

Grandmorin (as Berlioz)

Tony Corteggiani

Dabadie, le chef de section (as Cortegianni)

André Tavernier

Le juge d'instruction Denizet

Marcel Pérès

Un lampiste (as Perez)

Jean Renoir

Cabuche

Julien Carette

Pecqueux (as Carette)

Jacques Roussel

Commissaire Cauche (as Roussel)

Jacques Beauvais

(uncredited)

Jacques Becker

Un lampiste (uncredited)

Jacques B. Brunius

Un garçon de ferme (uncredited)

Marguerite de Morlaye

(uncredited)

Guy Decomble

Le garde-barrière (uncredited)

Émile Genevois

Un garçon de ferme (uncredited)

Léon Larive

Le valet de chambre (uncredited)

Maurice Marceau

Un mécanicien (uncredited)

Georges Péclet

Un cheminot (uncredited)

Georges Spanelly

Camy-Lamotte, le secrétaire de Grandmorin (uncredited)

Marcel Veyran

Le chanteur (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Severine gives Roubaud a Nogent knife, which he is impressed with. The region of Nogent-Bassigny is a centre of French cutlery manufacture. It also the name of a company that makes knives and similar items.

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La Lison, the name of the locomotive, is also the name of a river in western France, the Department of Franche-Comté.

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Severine likes Malaga wine. Malaga is a sweet fortified wine from the Spanish city of Málaga and is made from Pedro Ximénez and Moscatel grapes.

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Quotes

Jacques Lantier: Pecqueux, I have to tell you something. Don't say a word and don't move. I killed her. That's right, I killed her. It's all over. I'll never see her again. It'll be the death of me, I know it. I couldn't bear to hold her anymore. I loved her, you know? I loved her little hands most of all. But there's one thing I don't get: why haven't they arrested me?

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Jacques Lantier: I can't go on. I can't go on.

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