La Bête Humaine
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La Bête Humaine is a 1938 French film noir–style drama directed by Jean Renoir, adapted from Émile Zola’s novel about obsession, violence, and fate surrounding a troubled train engineer.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Bête humaine | 2 |
| La Bête Humaine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7267969 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: La Bête Humaine Context triple: [Pierre Renoir, notableWork, La Bête Humaine]
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Thérèse Raquin
Thérèse Raquin is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores adultery, murder, and psychological torment in 19th-century Paris.
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Madame Raquin
Madame Raquin is a central character in Émile Zola’s novel "Thérèse Raquin," depicted as a devoted but ultimately tragic and powerless maternal figure whose life is destroyed by the crimes and betrayals of those she loves.
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Les Rougon-Macquart
Les Rougon-Macquart is a twenty-novel cycle by Émile Zola that traces the lives of a fictional French family to explore heredity, environment, and society during the Second French Empire.
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Camille Raquin
Camille Raquin is a sickly, self-absorbed husband whose murder by his wife Thérèse and her lover drives the plot of Émile Zola’s naturalist novel "Thérèse Raquin."
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E.
Germinal
Germinal is the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar, corresponding roughly to late March and early April and associated with the sprouting of plants in spring.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: La Bête Humaine Target entity description: La Bête Humaine is a 1938 French film noir–style drama directed by Jean Renoir, adapted from Émile Zola’s novel about obsession, violence, and fate surrounding a troubled train engineer.
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A.
Thérèse Raquin
Thérèse Raquin is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that explores adultery, murder, and psychological torment in 19th-century Paris.
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B.
Madame Raquin
Madame Raquin is a central character in Émile Zola’s novel "Thérèse Raquin," depicted as a devoted but ultimately tragic and powerless maternal figure whose life is destroyed by the crimes and betrayals of those she loves.
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C.
Les Rougon-Macquart
Les Rougon-Macquart is a twenty-novel cycle by Émile Zola that traces the lives of a fictional French family to explore heredity, environment, and society during the Second French Empire.
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D.
Camille Raquin
Camille Raquin is a sickly, self-absorbed husband whose murder by his wife Thérèse and her lover drives the plot of Émile Zola’s naturalist novel "Thérèse Raquin."
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E.
Germinal
Germinal is the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar, corresponding roughly to late March and early April and associated with the sprouting of plants in spring.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French film
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film ⓘ film noir–style drama ⓘ |
| basedOn | La Bête Humaine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Émile Zola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkType | novel ⓘ |
| character |
Jacques Lantier
NERFINISHED
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Roubaud NERFINISHED ⓘ Séverine Roubaud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Curt Courant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| director | Jean Renoir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedIn | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Société Nouvelle des Films Dispa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | pre-World War II French cinema ⓘ |
| filmEditingBy | Marthe Huguet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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film noir ⓘ |
| hasBlackAndWhiteCinematography | true ⓘ |
| leadActorRole | Jean Gabin as Jacques Lantier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActressRole | Simone Simon as Séverine Roubaud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Joseph Kosma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
crime of passion
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psychological drama ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blend of realism and noir elements
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train sequences ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOfMovement | poetic realism ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Les Productions Raoul Ploquin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | train engineer ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfSource | 1890 ⓘ |
| releaseCountry | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1938 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 100 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Denys Amiel
NERFINISHED
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Jean Renoir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
railway environment
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trains ⓘ |
| star |
Fernand Ledoux
NERFINISHED
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Jean Gabin NERFINISHED ⓘ Julien Carette NERFINISHED ⓘ Simone Simon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
crime
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fate ⓘ madness ⓘ obsession ⓘ violence ⓘ |
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Subject: La Bête Humaine Description of subject: La Bête Humaine is a 1938 French film noir–style drama directed by Jean Renoir, adapted from Émile Zola’s novel about obsession, violence, and fate surrounding a troubled train engineer.
Referenced by (3)
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