The Lower Depths
About The Lower Depths
Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha.
The Lower Depths is a 1936 crime romance film directed by Jean Renoir. The film is filed under slum, realism, slum dwellers, and naturalism.
Jean Gabin takes the lead as Pepel Wasska, Suzy Prim as Vassilissa Kostyleva, Louis Jouvet as Le baron, and Jany Holt as Nastia, la prostituée. Released in December 1936, it runs 92 minutes.
The screenplay is by Charles Spaak and Evgeny Zamyatin. American members can watch it on Criterion Channel and France Channel Amazon Channel.
Capernaum and The Lower Depths make useful companions to The Lower Depths. TMDB voters put it at 7.2 out of 10 across 84 votes.