Word: gabin
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Pepel (Jean Gabin), a handsome thief, lives in a basement flophouse run by a receiver of stolen goods, Kostylev (Vladimir Sokoloff) and his wife Vassilissa (Suzy Prim), Pepel's mistress. Other muttering, miasmal inmates are: an alcoholic actor, a streetwalker addicted to reading sentimental novels aloud, and a genuine bankrupt baron who abandons his palace to live in filth. Threatened by the police, Vassilissa attempts to force her pretty little sister Natacha (Junie Astor) to marry a pudgy, petty official. In a resulting brawl old Kostylev is killed and Pepel goes to jail. A new ending, wildly...