A dark reflection of the world of Pagnol's Marseilles films, where Raimu is not what he seems. A world where wrongly accused men spend years in a French penal colony, of informants eager to collect reward money, and cruel bullying children. I'm not sure how much you can read into the fact this film was produced in Berlin for UFA, after the studio had been nationalized by the Nazis for propaganda purposes.
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