Before the Deluge

Year: 1954

Runtime: 138 mins

Language: French

Director: André Cayatte

Drama

A French “reality” drama that riffs on Louis XVI’s “Après moi, le déluge,” set in 1950, follows five Paris teenagers convinced an upcoming war will bring the apocalypse. To escape, they plan to flee to a desert island and create a new society, but first need money, so they commit a robbery. Their idealism collapses under the harsh consequences.

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