In questo adattamento dal romanzo di Emile Zola, un ingegnere si innamora con una tormentata donna sposata la quale ha aiutato il marito a compiere un omicidio.In questo adattamento dal romanzo di Emile Zola, un ingegnere si innamora con una tormentata donna sposata la quale ha aiutato il marito a compiere un omicidio.In questo adattamento dal romanzo di Emile Zola, un ingegnere si innamora con una tormentata donna sposata la quale ha aiutato il marito a compiere un omicidio.
- Premi
- 1 candidatura
- Pecqueux
- (as Carette)
- Roubaud
- (as Ledoux de la Comédie Française)
- Dauvergne
- (as Gerard Landry)
- Philomène Sauvagnat
- (as Jenny Helia)
- Victoire Pecqueux
- (as Colette Regis)
- Une voyageuse
- (as Claire Gerard)
- Tante Phasie
- (as Germaine Clasis)
- Grandmorin
- (as Berlioz)
- Dabadie
- (as Cortegianni)
- Un lampiste
- (as Perez)
- Commissaire Cauche
- (as Roussel)
- Un lampiste
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Trama
Lo sapevi?
- QuizJean Gabin learned how to operate a locomotive before shooting.
- BlooperAt about the 0:28:00 mark the boom mic shadows moves on the far left wall.
- Citazioni
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?
- Versioni alternativeThere is an Italian edition of this film on DVD, distributed by DNA srl, "LA BÊTE HUMAINE (L'angelo del male, 1938) + VERSO LA VITA (1936)" (2 Films on a single DVD), re-edited with the contribution of film historian Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available for streaming on some platforms.
- ConnessioniEdited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une histoire seule (1989)
"La bête humaine" is arguably the best Zola screen adaptation.Seventeenth part of the Rougon-Macquart family saga-one of the peaks of French lit in the 19th century-,this could be the best with the exceptions of "l'assommoir" and "Germinal".The hero is a son of Gervaise Macquart ,Jacques Lantier.He was not mentioned in any of the previous books,because Gervaise had only 3 children (Nana,Etienne(in Germinal) and Claude (in l'oeuvre),and Zola needed one more,so he made up this fourth child from start to finish.What he needed was a hero with a history of mental illness (stemming from alcohol).Jean Gabin portrays Jacques with a sublime conviction:the scene in which he tries to strangle Blanchette Brunoy to whom he confesses he can't help it,he can't escape the terrible fate which is in store for him.
When he meets Severine(Simone Simon,the future heroine of Tourneur's "cat people'(1942)),and is attracted by her sexually,the woman,whose husband (Fernand Ledoux) is anything but handsome, feels in deep in her perverse soul, that she's found the right killer,because she has discovered he's unable to keep his self-control .
Some scenes are absolutely unforgettable:the beginning,which films the railroad tracks as never before;the railroad men dance,during which a murder is committed while a singer is crooning an old song,"le petit coeur de Ninon";the final,faithful to Zola to a fault: a train,belting in the night,gone mad,which becomes a metaphor not only for Lantier's descent into hell,but for the country (it's 1938!) heading for the darkness.Renoir had transposed the action in th thirties.These dazzling pictures perfectly echo Zola's extraordinary lines:"Elle roulait,roulait sans fin,comme affolée de plus en plus par le bruit de son haleine"(It was rolling,endlessly rolling,as if it were more and more panic-stricken by the sound of its breath).
Remake by Fritz Lang in 1954 :"human desire" with Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame;although I admire Fritz Lang very much,I think his effort is neatly inferior.
- dbdumonteil
- 9 mar 2002
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