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Germinal (1993) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
162 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1993 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Claude Berri

Written By:
Claude Berri
Arlette Langmann

Actors:
Miou-Miou ..... Maheude
Renaud ..... Étienne Lantier
Jean Carmet ..... Vincent Maheu dit Bonnemort
Judith Henry ..... Catherine Maheu
Jean-Roger Milo ..... Chaval
Gerard Depardieu ..... Toussaint Maheu
Laurent Terzieff ..... Souvarine
Bernard Fresson ..... Victor Deneulin
Jean-Pierre Bisson ..... Rasseneur
Jacques Dacqmine ..... Philippe Hennebeau
Anny Duperey ..... Madame Hennebeau
Gérard Croce ..... Maigrat
Frédéric van den Driessche ..... Paul Négrel
Annick Alane ..... Madame Grégoire
Pierre Lafont ..... Léon Grégoire

Synopsis:

Claude Berri's angry, ambitious epic, based on the 19th-century novel by Emile Zola, re-creates, as does the novel, the gut-wrenching poverty and the intense day-by-day struggles of striking French coal-miners in 1884 at the Voreux mines of France. The film centers upon the bitter toils of Maheu (Gerard Depardieu) and his family -- consisting of his iron-willed wife (Miou-Miou) and their daughter Catherine (Judith Henry), who also works in the mines. When a new miner, Etienne Lantier (Renaud), comes to Voreux to seek work, he is befriended by Maheu, who takes him on his mining crew and allows him to stay at his home. Etienne is also an organizer for a new miner's union and, as conditions in the Voreux mines worsen, Etienne convinces Maheu to organize a miner's strike. Meanwhile, Etienne is attracted to Catherine, and Catherine to him, but she doesn't act upon her feelings, taking up, instead, with Chaval (Jean-Roger Milo), a local ne'er do well. As conditions in the mines become more desperate and unsafe, and the owners propose to cut wages, Maheu at last stages a massive strike of the miners. When that happens, the owners send in armed soldiers to defend the mines.

Set in the Gallic coal mining industry in the 1870s, an unemployed mechanic joins a mining crew where tensions are running high due to management's time-consuming safety demands. He encourages the miners to strike, resulting in a chain reaction of tragic events.

It's mid 19th century in northern France. The story is about a coal miner's town. The workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.

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