The lower depths
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Presents two excerpts from Maxim Gorki's play The Lower Depths, as played by the Moscow Art Theater. One scene shows a group of social outcasts telling stories of former wealth and grandeur and an actor soliloquizing on "What is Man?" The second scene, taking place at a drinking party, shows the group's reaction to the actor's suicide.
Credits
- Directed by
- Akira Kurosawa
- Written by
- Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Maxim Gorky
- Cast
- Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Akemi Negishi, Haruo Tanaka, Yū Fujiki, Minoru Chiaki, Kyōko Kagawa, Bokuzen Hidari, Kamatari Fujiwara, Eijirō Tōno, Nakamura Ganjirō II
- Produced by
- Akira Kurosawa
- Music
- Masaru Sato
- Edited by
- Akira Kurosawa
Sources
- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, description, catalog record
- Wikidata · Q1475995 ↗ — creator, length, color, country, genre, credits
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