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The lower depths
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936. Na dne--English--Film adaptations.
- Gorky, Maksim.
- Thieves--France--Drama.
- Thieves.
- Romance films--France.
- Romance films.
- Genre:
- Internet videos
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 89 minutes) digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2014
- System Details:
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- Jean Renoir and Akira Kurosawa, two of cinema's greatest directors, transform Maxim Gorky's classic proletariat play The lower depths in their own ways for their own times. Renoir, working amidst the rise of Hitler and the popular front in France, had need to take license with the dark nature of Gorky's source material, softening its bleak outlook. Kurosawa, firmly situated in the postwar world, found little reason for hope. He remained faithful to the original with its focus on the conflict between illusion and reality, a theme he would return to over and over again. Working with their most celebrated actors (Gabin with Renoir; Mifune with Kurosawa), each film offers a unique look at cinematic adaptation, where social conditions and filmmaking styles converge to create unique masterpieces
- Notes:
- Vendor supplied data
- Originally produced by Criterion Collection/Janus Films in 1936
- OCLC:
- 1294526448
- Publisher Number:
- 1116576 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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