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Often considered Zola's masterpiece and one of the most significant novels in the French tradition, the novel – an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s – has been published and translated in over one hundred countries.
Germinal is a 1993 French epic film based on the 1885 novel by Émile Zola. It was directed by Claude Berri, and stars Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou and Renaud. At the time it was the most expensive movie ever produced in France. [3] It was the fourth most attended film of the year in France.
Émile Zola, Roger Pearson (Translator) 4.19. 38,402 ratings2,194 reviews. The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope.
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Mar 31, 1994 · Germinal: Directed by Claude Berri. With Miou-Miou, Renaud, Jean Carmet, Judith Henry. In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's 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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- Drama, Romance
- Claude Berri
- 1994-03-31
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- Émile Zola
- Dagny and Marc D’Hooghe
- 1885
- Germinal
Feb 8, 2018 · So, in the little Cornish cottage over the sea we then occupied, the evenings of the early months of 1894 were spent over Germinal, I translating aloud, and she with swift efficient untiring pen following, now and then bettering my English dialogue with her pungent wit.
Jun 10, 2020 · The 13th novel in the series, Germinal, published in 1895, is unequivocally one of Zola’s greatest novels in its harsh depiction of miners’ strikes during the 1860s.
