Starring Jean Gabin

Exuding a gruff, jaded cynicism, Jean Gabin became the defining face of pre–New Wave French cinema, embodying its downtrodden, working-class heroes with a mix of smoldering charisma and sardonic ennui. His renowned collaborations with leading directors like Jean Renoir (GRAND ILLUSION, LA BÊTE HUMAINE) and Julien Duvivier (PÉPÉ LE MOKO) placed him at the center of the burgeoning poetic-realist movement. In his later career, Gabin took his rightful place as a living, almost mythic symbol of his country’s national cinema, reuniting with Renoir for the spectacular period musical FRENCH CANCAN and teaming up with his next-generation successor, Jean-Paul Belmondo, in the alcohol-soaked seriocomedy A MONKEY IN WINTER.