The Lower Depths
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jean Renoir
Produced by	Alexandre Kamenka
Written by	Screenplay: Yevgeni Zamyatin Jacques Companéez Jean Renoir Charles Spaak Play: Maxim Gorky
Starring	Jean Gabin Suzy Prim Louis Jouvet
Music by	Jean Wiener
Cinematography	Fédote Bourgasoff
Editing by	Marguerite Renoir
Release date(s)	France: 9 March 1945 United States: 15 November 1946
Running time	95 min.
Country	France
Language	French

The Lower Depths (French: Les bas-fonds) is a 1936 French drama film directed by Jean Renoir, based on a play of the same title by Maxim Gorky. The film is an example of the poetic realism.

Akira Kurosawa also directed a Japanese film version of Gorky's play, Donzoko (1957). Both are available on one DVD from the Criterion Collection.

[edit] Cast

• Jean Gabin as Wasska Pepel
• Suzy Prim as Vassilissa Kostyleva
• Louis Jouvet as The Baron
• Jany Holt as Nastia
• Vladimir Sokoloff as Kostylev
• Robert Le Vigan as The Alcoholic Actor
• Camille Bert as The Count
• René Génin as Louka
• Paul Temps as Satine
• Robert Ozanne as Jabot de Travers
• Henri Saint-Isle as Kletsch
• Junie Astor as Natascha

[edit] See also

• Cinema of France
• List of French language films

[edit] External links

• The Lower Depths at the Internet Movie Database
• Criterion Collection essay by Alexander Sesonske

v • d • e Films directed by Jean Renoir 1920s Backbiters (1924) · Whirlpool of Fate (1925) · Nana (1926) · Charleston Parade (1927) · Une vie sans joie (1927) · Marquitta (1927) · The Sad Sack (1928) · The Tournament (1928) · The Little Match Girl (1928) · Le Bled (1929) 1930s On purge bébé (1931) · Isn't Life a Bitch? (1931) · Night at the Crossroads (1932) · Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) · Chotard and Company (1932) · Madame Bovary (1933) · Toni (1935) · A Day in the Country (1936) · The People of France (1936) · The Lower Depths (1936) · The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) · Grand Illusion (1937) · The Marseillaise (1938) · The Human Beast (1938) · The Rules of the Game (1939) 1940s Swamp Water (1941) · This Land Is Mine (1943) · Salute to France (1944) · The Southerner (1945) · The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) · The Woman on the Beach (1947) 1950s The River (1951) · The Golden Coach (1953) · French Cancan (1955) · Elena and Her Men (1956) · The Testament of Doctor Cordelier (1959) · Picnic on the Grass (1959) 1960s The Elusive Corporal (1962) · The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1969)

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