Gervaise (René Clément)
Certificate: 12
Running Time: 112 Mins
Retail Price: £15.99
Release Date: 07/01/2013
Content Type: Movie
Synopsis:
Gervaise is a 1956 French film directed by René Clément and based on the novel L'Assommoir by Émile Zola. Gervaise Macquart, (Maria Schell, Le Notti Bianche) a young crippled laundress, is left alone with two young children when her lover, Auguste Lantier decides to leave. Despite many struggles she works hard to turn her life around and marries Henri Coupeau, a roofer and fulfils her dream of buying her own laundry, however things takes a turn for the worse as her old lover returns and her husband starts drinking heavily.
Special Features:
None
Video Tracks:
1:33.1 Black and white
Audio Tracks:
Mono 2.0 French
Subtitle Tracks:
English
Directed By:
René Clément
Written By:
Émile Zola (novel "L'Assommoir")
Jean Aurenche
Pierre Bost
Starring:
Maria Schell
François Périer
Many Holt
Mathilde Casadesus
Florelle
Micheline Luccioni
Lucien Hubert
Jacques Harden
Jacques Hilling
Amédée
Hubert de Lapparent
Hélène Tossy
Rachel Devirys
Jacqueline Morane
Yvonne Claudie
Soundtrack By:
Georges Auric
Director of Photography:
Robert Juillard
Editor:
Henri Rust
Costume Designer:
Mayo
Lucilla Mussini (uncredited)
Production Designer:
Paul Bertrand
Producer:
Agnès Delahaie (as Annie Dorfmann)
Distributor:
Studio Canal
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