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Gervaise is a french film of genre Drama directed by René Clément with Maria Schell

Gervaise (1956)

Gervaise
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Length 2h
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OriginFrance
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating73% 3.686933.686933.686933.686933.68693

Gervaise is a 1956 French film directed by René Clément based on the 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. The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 29th Academy Awards. Schell won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 1956 Venice Film Festival for her performance.

Synopsis

Paris, à partir de 1852. Les malheurs et la déchéance de Gervaise, blanchisseuse abandonnée avec deux enfants par son amant Lantier. Elle devient la femme de Coupeau, brave ouvrier-couvreur qu'un accident voue à l'inaction, l'alcoolisme et la maladie. Malgré son courage et aussi l'amitié et l'amour du forgeron Goujet, elle ne peut lutter contre la dégradation de Coupeau qui saccage le magasin qui était sa raison de vivre. La haine et la perfidie de Virginie, à qui la liait une vieille histoire et la condition sociale des ouvriers de l'époque, la font sombrer dans l'alcoolisme, alors que la petite Nana est livrée à elle-même et à la rue.

Actors

Maria Schell

(Gervaise Macquart Coupeau, une blanchisseuse douce et courageuse)
François Périer

(Henri Coupeau - le second compagnon de Gervaise, un ouvrier zingueur)
Jany Holt

(Mme Lorilleux - la soeur revêche de Coupeau)
Suzy Delair

(Virginie Poisson, une rivale de Gervaise)
Armand Mestral

(Lantier, l'amant de Gervaise)
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Les Rougon-Macquart

Nana (1926) L'Argent (1928) The Struggle (1931) Nana (1934) La Bête Humaine (1938) Shop Girls of Paris (1943) Nana (1944) Human Desire (1954) Nana (1955) Gervaise (1956) La Bestia humana (1957) Lovers of Paris (1957) Germinal (1963) The Game Is Over (1966) Nana (1983) Nana (1985) Germinal (1993)

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