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Gervaise (1956)
An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.
Actor: Armand Mestral Florelle François Périer Jacques Harden Jany Holt Lucien Hubert Maria Schell Mathilde Casadesus Micheline Luccioni Suzy Delair
Director: Claude Clément, Léonard Keigel, René Clément, Serge Friedman
Country: France
