Runtime: 112 min
Average vote: 6.8
Release date: 1956-09-05
Director: René Clément
Writer: Jean Aurenche
Writer: Pierre Bost
Music: Georges Auric
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.
Maria Schell
as
Gervaise Macqu...
François Périer
as
Henri Coupeau ...
Jany Holt
as
Mme Lorilleux ...
Mathilde Casad...
as
Mme Boche - la...
Suzy Delair
as
Virginie Poiss...
Armand Mestral
as
Lantier, l'ama...
Florelle
as
Maman Coupeau
Micheline Lucc...
as
Clémence
Lucien Hubert
as
Mr Poisson
Jacques Harden
as
Goujet, le for...