The New Men
MovieTitle | Les Hommes nouveaux |
User score | 6 |
Release date | Mar 4, 1936 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Marcel L'Herbier |
Production country | France |
Production companies | Société Française de Production et d'Edition |
Run time | 110 min. |
Dedicated to men, natives and French, which under the leadership of General Lyautey, made modern Morocco. After a historical prologue where we see Clemenceau yield to the entreaties of Lyautey, we are witnessing the arrival of settlers on Moroccan soil with the rapid rise of one of them: the ambitious Bourron. Similarly it has conquered the land from scratch, Bourron could conquer a woman, Christiane, who followed him not without confessing his love for another man. It is this love that Bourron will use later to acquire a forest of olive trees, which he believed to be the symbol of its success. Christiane accept but never forgive her husband...