Germinal

Drama, Romance · 1994R

During the Second Napoleonic Empire, Etienne Lantier finds employment as a coal miner in the northern French town of Montsou. He immediately encounters misery and degradation in the apalling conditions of the mine. There he meets men as unscrupulous as Chaval and, conversely, as generous as Maheu. In fact a whole range of suffering humanity, labouring under the curse of capitalism.

Starring

Hervé de Luze, Miou-Miou, Renaud, Hoang Thanh At, Jean Carmet, Frédéric Auburtin, Claude Berri, Judith Henry, Jean-Roger Milo, Claude Berri

Director

Claude Berri