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Gervaise [ʒɛʁ.vɛz] is a 1956 French historical drama film directed by René Clément based on the 1877 novel L'Assommoir by Émile Zola. It depicts a working-class woman in the mid-nineteenth century (played by Maria Schell) trying to cope with the descent of her husband (played by François Périer) into alcoholism .
A poor laundrywoman tries to cope with a depressing burden of society. 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.
Gervaise est un film français réalisé par René Clément, sorti en 1956. Il est inspiré du roman L'Assommoir d' Émile Zola . Synopsis. Paris, à partir de 1852. Les malheurs et la déchéance de Gervaise, blanchisseuse abandonnée avec ses jeunes fils Étienne et Claude par son amant Lantier.
- France
- René Clément
The equally gripping Gervaise, his vivid adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, is an uncompromising depiction of a laundress’s struggles with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.
- Gervaise Macquart
Dec 8, 2008 · Published in 1877, the focus of L'Assomoir was on alcoholism and one woman's attempt to rise above the abject poverty of her station in life. She is brought down gradually by her lover (who leaves her with two children) and her husband who becomes an alcoholic after an accident.
- René Clément
- Maria Schell
As her now crippled husband descends into alcoholism, Gervaise tries to make ends meet on her own. Life becomes even more complicated when Lantier returns and befriends Henri.
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- Drama
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An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.
