Top billed cast

1. 

   Jean Gabin

   Lantier

2. 

   Simone Simon

   Séverine

3. 

   Fernand Ledoux

   Roubaud

4. 

   Julien Carette

   Pecqueux

5. 

   Blanchette Brunoy

   Flore

6. 

   Gérard Landry

   Dauvergne

7. 

   Jenny Hélia

   Philomène

8. 

   Colette Régis

   Victoire

9. 

   Claire Gérard

   Voyager

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-20

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 discovers that she has had an affair with her godfather, he forces her to arrange a meeting on his (moving) train and kills him. Whilst not actually witnessed by fellow railway work...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
French

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• husband wife relationship
• based on novel or book
• family secrets
• le havre, france
• troubled marriage
• railwayman
• traumatized man
• railway