La Bête humaine (English: The Beast Within or The Beast in Man or The Monomaniac) is an 1890 novel by Émile Zola. It is the seventeenth book in Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart series. The story focuses on the lives and violent passions of railway workers who operate the line between Paris and Le Havre in the late 1860s. The novel is a tense psychological thriller and has been adapted multiple times for radio, television, and film.
Adaptations (2)
La Bête humaine has been adapted into 2 films, from 1954 to 1995. The most recent is Cruel Train (1995).
Cruel Train1995 · film · 100 min · dir. Malcolm McKay · IMDb ↗IMDb5.5In wartime England, railway official Ruben Roberts discovers that his wife was sexually abused as a child by the Chairman of the Line, also her godfather. With her assistance, Ruben plots murder on the Brighton Express.
