1 Movie Starring Mathilde Casadesus

Gervaise

Gervaise

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1957-11-11

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

116 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (769 Reviews)

Director:

Renè Clèment

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

èmile Zola (novel)

Jean Aurenche

Pierre Bost

Fullplot:

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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