Pierre MacOrlan

Undead pirates adopt a young baby they found on a captured ship as their mascot and name him the "Littlest King," but when the baby becomes a child, the pirates come up with a plan which they hope will win them divine favor.

Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance at life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, when acts of both revenge and kindness turn him into front-page news. The film starkly portrays an underworld of lonely souls wrestling with their own destinies, a quintessential example of poetic realism, one of the classics of the golden age of French cinema.