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La Bête Humaine

7.1(253)19381h 38m3

Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Séverine, his wife.

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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
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Language
French
  • husband wife relationship
  • based on novel or book
  • family secrets
  • le havre, france
  • troubled marriage
  • railwayman
  • traumatized man
  • railway

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Behind the camera

Director

Jean Renoir

Produced in

France

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical19 Feb 1940
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereLondon17 Apr 1939
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical23 Dec 1938
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical16 Sept 1949
  • ItalyIT

    • PremiereVenice Film Festival28 Aug 1939
    • Theatrical8 Oct 1942
  • MexicoMX

    • Theatrical11 May 1939
  • PortugalPT

    • Theatrical7 Nov 1939
  • SpainES

    • Physical16 Feb 2005
  • XCXC

    • Theatrical21 Jun 1946

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La Bête Humaine was released on 23 December 1938.

Audience reviews

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    CinemaSerf

    6/20/2022

    7/10

    I have to be honest and say that I was quite underwhelmed by this. Whilst Jean Renoir has certainly produced a beautifully gritty film that evokes a genuine sense of how life on the French Chemin de fer might have been in the late 1930s', this left me feeling that a great deal had been lost between the book and the screen... "Roubeau" is a forty something railway conductor who has a much, much younger wife. When he d…

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