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"La bête humaine" (original title)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama | 19 February 1940 (USA)

In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.

Director: Jean Renoir
Writers: Émile Zola (novel), Jean Renoir (screenplay), 2 more credits »
Stars: Jean Gabin, Julien Carette, Simone Simon
Transcript
00:01Leave him. Come with me. It's so simple.
00:03We don't build happiness on a crime.
00:06No, I told you earlier. In front of us, it's barren.
00:09Tell me, Sandra.
00:10I'm going to destroy everything.
00:12I need him so much, you know.
00:15Do you have sorrows?
00:30I can't believe I'm paying for the others, for the fathers, the great-grandfathers who saw me.
00:41Generations and generations of drunkards who ruined my blood.
00:49Conserves damage the stomach. Get married, my old man. Get married.
00:54Thank you. I'm already married to Lison.
00:58We are married with a locomotive.
01:10Do you believe me, Goupard?
01:13It's not me. It's not me. Let me go.
02:57To be continued.

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