Gervaise Macquart, a young lame laundress, is left by her lover Auguste Lantier with two boys… She manages to make it, and a few years later she marries Coupeau, a roofer. After working very hard a few more years, she succeeds in buying her own laundry (her dream)… But Coupeau starts to drink after having fallen from a roof, and Lantier shows up… A faithful adaptation of Emile Zola’s novel “L’Assomoir”, depicting the fatal degeneration of a family of workers, mainly because of alcohol. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 7.5/10 | |
Released: | November 11, 1957 | |
Runtime: | 116 min | |
Genres: | Drama | |
Companies: | Corona Films Cino del Duca Agnès Delahaie Productions Silver Films Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique (CICC) | |
Cast: | François Périer Maria Schell Jany Holt Mathilde Casadesus | |
Crew: | René Clément Émile Zola Jean Aurenche Pierre Bost | |
Keannu : Yes, but for some reason, versions of it on imdb and TMDb were merged into one.