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.
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 , François Périer , Jany Holt
Paul Bertrand
Silver Films , Cino del Duca
as Gervaise Macquart Coupeau, une blanchisseuse douce et courageuse
as Henri Coupeau - le second compagnon de Gervaise, un ouvrier zingueur
as Mme Lorilleux - la soeur revêche de Coupeau
