Gervaise
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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HD
Drama
1956
116 min
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Movie Info:
- Full Name : Gervaise
- Duration : 116 min
- Languages : French
- Writers : èmile Zola (novel), Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost
- Directors : Renè Clèment min
- Imdb : 7.4 (769 votes)
- Tomatoes : 3.7 (158 votes)
- Actors : Maria Schell, Franèois Pèrier, Jany Holt, Mathilde Casadesus
Movie Storyline
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.