Germinal (1963 film)

Germinal is a 1963 French language French-Italian-Hungarian film directed by Yves Allégret. It is an adaptation of the 1885 novel Germinal by Emile Zola.

Germinal
Directed by	Yves Allégret
Written by	Charles Spaak
Based on	Germinal by Emile Zola
Starring	Jean Sorel
Cinematography	Jean Bourgoin
Edited by	Henri Rust
Music by	Michel Magne, orchestra under the direction of Jean Gitton
Production companies	Les Films Marceau, Cocinor, Paris Elysées Film, Metzger et Woog (Paris); Laetitia Film (Rome), in collaboration with Hungaro Films et Hunnia Films (Budapest)
Distributed by	Cocinor
Release date	September 18, 1963 (1963-09-18)
Running time	112 minutes
Countries	France Italy Hungary
Language	French

Plot

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.

Cast

• Jean Sorel as Étienne Lantier, a new young miner
• Berthe Granval as Catherine Maheu, a young woman
• Claude Brasseur as Marcel (or Martin) Chaval, a miner in love with Catherine
• Bernard Blier as Hennebeau, the owner of a mineshaft
• Claude Cerval as Victor Maigrat, a businessman
• Philippe Lemaire as Henri Negrel, an engineer
• Jacqueline Porel as Mme Maigrat
• Lea Padovani as La Maheude
• Pierre Destailles as Raseneur, an innkeeper
• Paulette Dubost as Rose, Hennebeau's servant
• Gabrielle Dorziat as Cécile's grandmother
• Simone Valère as Madame Clotilde Hennebeau
• Jacques Monod as Deneulin
• Michèle Cordoue as Désir, a widow
• Sándor Pécsi as Maheu, a miner
• Gábor Koncz as Souvarine, a revolutionary
• Marianne Krencsey as la Mouquette
• Zoltán Makláry as Bonnemort, an old miner
• René Lefèvre-Bel as Félix, Hennebeau's butler

See also

• Germinal (1913)
• Germinal (1993)

External links

• Germinal at IMDb