Directed by Jean Grémillon • 1938 • France, Germany
Starring Raimu, Madeleine Renaud, Pierre Blanchar

In this moody crime thriller, the well-respected shopkeeper Monsieur Victor (Raimu)—who clandestinely does business with a gang of criminals in the French port town of Toulon—holds onto a terrible secret when the local cobbler Bastien (Pierre Blanchar) is sent to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Seven years later, the truth comes out.