This famous film version, directed by jean renoir in 1938, is a clever adaption of the main characters in the book, the unfortunate lantier jean gabin, the kittenish and deadly severin simone simon. The beast within or the beast in man is an 1890 novel by emile zola. Long dead by the time of the films production, renoirs tribute to the writer is unusually bombast for the filmmaker. An illustration of a computer application window wayback machine an illustration of an open book. The picture features jean gabin and simone simon, and. Part poetic realism, part film noir, the film is a hardboiled and suspenseful journey into the tormented psyche of a workingman. Engineer jacques lantier, stuck in le havre while the train is being repaired, also begins a passionate affair with severine, who tries to entice the handsome stranger to murder her controlling husband. Did renoir indeed offer a blueprint for the coding of destiny in the postwar years. The seventeenth book in zolas les rougonmacquart series, it is based upon the railway between paris and le havre in the 19th century and is a tense, psychological thriller. Severine and her husband roubaud kill their former employer in a train. On board a train bound for the port city of le havre, france, railroad stationmaster roubard murders grandmorin, who seduced his beautiful young wife, severine.
This famous film version, directed by jean renoir in 1938, is a clever adaption of the main characters in the book, the unfortunate lantier jean gabin, the kittenish and deadly severin simone simon and her dour husband roubaud fernand ledoux. I suppose the speeding train is supposed to spark the fierce percussion that outlines the film. Project gutenberg offers 61,314 free ebooks to download. The novel is essentially a psychological thriller whose story features three very dynamic characters. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. On board a train bound for the port city of le havre, railroad stationmaster. The risk one runs in posing the question inheres, it seems, in the convention of film noir itself. In this classic adaptation of emile zolas novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder. Train engineer jean gabin lusts after simone simon, the wife of his coworker fernand ledoux. Feb 01, 2004 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg.
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