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The New Men

The New Men

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 4, 1936

Runtime

1h 50m

Genres

Drama

User Score

60%

Original Title

Les Hommes nouveaux

Production Companies

Société Française de Production et d'Edition

Director

Marcel L'Herbier

Description

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...