Gervaise
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.
Director: Claude Clément, Léonard Keigel, René Clément, Serge Friedman
Actors: François Périer, Jany Holt, Maria Schell
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