The Lower Depths

1936

French

7.5

♡ 4

Jean Renoir Director

Maurice Baquet as Alochka - le fou accordéoniste

Vladimir Sokoloff as Kostylev

Junie Astor as Natacha

Jean Gabin as Pepel Wasska

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. Pepel also befriends the baron, a former nobleman fallen on hard times, but Pepel's attempts at happiness are complicated when he's accused of murder by a spiteful Vassilissa.

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The Lower Depths