Directed by Jean Grémillon • 1937 • France, Germany
Starring Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Pierre Etchepare

The first collaboration between filmmaker Jean Grémillon and legendary actor Jean Gabin, this adaptation of a novel by André Beucler features the young Gabin as a Casanova of the French Foreign Legion—the “lady killer” Lucien Bourrache—who meets his match in the mysterious seductress Madeleine (Mireille Balin).