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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 .
Gervaise Macquart (Maria Schell) is a beautiful Parisian laundress and mother whose lover, Lantier (Armand Mestral) walks out on her.
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- Maria Schell
- René Clément
- Drama
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.
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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.
May 31, 2021 · Trailer with French subtitles for the movie 'Gervaise' released in 1956.Based on 'L'Assommoir' by Émile Zola.Directed by : René Clément (https://youtube.com/...
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Gervaise's miseries are crowned by the absence of the one man she can count on to help her - Goujet is now locked up in prison. As her world falls apart around her, robbing her of both dignity and hope, Gervaise turns to drink.
As a film version of Zola’s L’Assommoir, Gervaise emerges as the finest rendering of a literary classic the cinema has given us since David Lean’s Dickens films. Full Review | Mar 30, 2022
