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Germinal is a french film of genre Drama directed by Yves Allégret with Jean Sorel

Germinal (1963)

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Length 1h52
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OriginFrance
Genres Drama
Rating64% 3.2372353.2372353.2372353.2372353.237235

Germinal is a 1963 French language French-Italian-Hungarian film directed by Yves Allégret. It is an adaptation of the novel Germinal by Emile Zola.

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The year is 1863. Étienne Lantier gets work as a mineworker after having been fired from his job on the railroad for revolutionary behavior. Disheartened by the conditions in the mines, he returns to his revolutionary ideas and leads a strike of the mineworkers. Soldiers are brought in to quell the strike.

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