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11 November 1957 (USA)
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A Most Unusual Love Story in a Most Unusual Motion Picture! more
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Gervaise Macquart, a young lame laundress, is left by her lover Auguste Lantier with two boys... She manages to make it...
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Nominated for Oscar.
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Maria Schell was miscast
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Maria Schell | ... | Gervaise Macquart | |
| François Périer | ... | Henri Coupeau | |
| Jany Holt | ... | Mme Lorilleaux | |
| Mathilde Casadesus | ... | Mme Boche | |
| Florelle | ... | Maman Coupeau | |
| Micheline Luccioni | ... | Clémence | |
| Lucien Hubert | ... | M. Poisson | |
| Jacques Harden | ... | Goujet | |
| Jacques Hilling | ... | M. Boche | |
| Amédée | ... | Mes Bottes | |
| Hubert de Lapparent | ... | M. Lorilleux (as Hubert Lapparent) | |
| Hélène Tossy | ... | Mme Bijard | |
| Rachel Devirys | ... | Mme Fauconnier (as Rachel Devyris) | |
| Jacqueline Morane | ... | Mme Gaudron | |
| Yvonne Claudie | ... | Mme Putois |
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Gervaise (USA)
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112 min | USA:116 min | West Germany:122 min
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Version of L'assommoir (1902)
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Why Maria Schell?If you have read Zola's masterpiece -"l'assommoir" the seventh of the Rougon Macquart saga,and one of the finest, surpassed only by "Germinal"- ,you wonder why Clement chose her when the part was tailor made for Simone Signoret.On the other hand ,Suzy Delair was the ideal Virginie Poisson,hypocrite venomous and vile .They say her buttocks were "dubbed" (by Liliane Montevecchi's) during the famous scene of the spanking ! René Clément did a good job even if his adaptation seemed sometimes tame and timid .Zola's depictions are so intense that it's hard to transfer them to the screen.But the " fête de Gervaise " ,with the gargantuan meal comes close to fully recreate it,and it was not easy since in the book it spreads over about twenty pages.
Despise some reservations,this is an unqualified must for good cinema lovers.