
Train engineer Jacques Lantier, played by screen legend Jean Gabin, becomes the lover of Severine, the wife of deputy station master Roubaud. Roubaud overlooks the affair because he rightly believes that Lantier knows he killed his wife’s previous lover. Based on the classic Émile Zola novel, La Bête humaine is a hard-boiled and suspenseful journey into the tormented psyche of a working man.
It also offers stupendous shots of train journeys.