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La Bête humaine

Human Desire, 1954 movie based on the novel, and directed by Fritz Lang, starring Glenn Ford


Émile Zola

With this object in view he visited the colliery of Anzin in northern France, in February 1884 when a strike was on; he visited La Beauce (for La Terre), Sedan, Ardennes (for La Débâcle) and travelled on the railway line between Paris and Le Havre (when researching La Bête humaine).


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