This edition: "The Lower Depths (Les bas-fonds)" (1936)
Episode Details
First aired: April 7, 2018.(1936, France, 1h 30min, Crime | Drama | Romance, b&w, In French with English Subtitles)
Director: Jean Renoir
Writers: Maxim Gorky (play), Yevgeni Zamyatin (as E. Zamiatine)
Stars: Jean Gabin, Suzy Prim, Louis Jouvet
A charismatic thief makes friends with a bankrupt baron who comes to live in the thief's slum. Meanwhile the thief seeks the love of a young woman, who is held emotionally captive by her slumlord family.
Discussion guest: Jonathan Buchsbaum, Queens College CUNY.
Guest List
Jonathan Buchsbaum Professor or Media Studies, Queens College/CUNY
- Thieves' Highway
- Friday, June 19 - 12:00am
- Saturday, June 20 - 12:00am
- Sunday, June 21 - 12:00am
- Call Northside 777
- Friday, June 19 - 9:30pm
- Saturday, June 20 - 9:30pm
- Sunday, June 21 - 9:30pm
- Friday, June 26 - 12:00am
- Saturday, June 27 - 12:00am
- Sunday, June 28 - 12:00am
- Railroaded!
- Friday, June 26 - 9:30pm
- Saturday, June 27 - 9:30pm
- Sunday, June 28 - 9:30pm
- Friday, July 3 - 12:00am
- Saturday, July 4 - 12:00am
- Sunday, July 5 - 12:00am
- The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
- Friday, July 3 - 9:30pm
- Saturday, July 4 - 9:30pm
- Sunday, July 5 - 9:30pm
- Friday, July 10 - 12:00am
- Saturday, July 11 - 12:00am
- Sunday, July 12 - 12:00am
- FALLEN ANGEL
- Friday, July 10 - 9:30pm
- Saturday, July 11 - 9:30pm
- Sunday, July 12 - 9:30pm
- Thieves' Highway
- Friday, June 12 - 9:30pm
- Saturday, June 13 - 9:30pm
- Sunday, June 14 - 9:30pm
- October: Ten Days That Shook the World
- Friday, June 5 - 9:30pm
- Saturday, June 6 - 9:30pm
- Sunday, June 7 - 9:30pm
- Friday, June 12 - 12:00am
- Saturday, June 13 - 12:00am
- Sunday, June 14 - 12:00am
- The End of Saint Petersburg
- Friday, May 29 - 9:30pm
- Saturday, May 30 - 9:30pm
- Sunday, May 31 - 9:30pm
- Friday, June 5 - 12:00am
- Saturday, June 6 - 12:00am
- Sunday, June 7 - 12:00am
- The New Babylon
- Friday, May 22 - 9:30pm
- Saturday, May 23 - 9:30pm
- Sunday, May 24 - 9:30pm
- Friday, May 29 - 12:00am
- Saturday, May 30 - 12:00am
- Sunday, May 31 - 12:00am
- Mother
- Sunday, May 17 - 9:30pm
- Friday, May 22 - 12:00am
- Saturday, May 23 - 12:00am
- Sunday, May 24 - 12:00am
