

La Bête Humaine
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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- Released
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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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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
1- C7/10
CinemaSerf
6/20/2022
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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