Gervaise (film)

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Movie
German title Gervaise
Original title Gervaise
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1956
length 112 minutes
Rod
Director René Clément
script Jean Aurenche
Pierre Bost based
on the novel L'Assommoir by Émile Zola
production Agnès Delahaie
music Georges Auric
camera Robert Juillard
cut Henri Rust
occupation

Gervaise is a French drama film directed by René Clément in 1956 based on the 1877 novel L'Assommoir by Émile Zola .

Plot and background

Gervaise, a young, gentle laundress, was left in Paris with her two sons by her lover Auguste Lantier in 1852. She coped with this situation and a few years later she married the roofer Henri Coupeau. After working hard for a few years, she fulfilled her dream and bought her own laundry. Over time, her husband begins drinking Coupeau after falling off the roof in an accident at work, and her lover Lantier suddenly reappears too.

In the faithful literary adaptation of Zola's novel L'Assommoir , the fatal degeneration of a working-class family is portrayed, which is mainly due to alcoholism .

Micheline Luccioni makes her debut as a film actress in the role of Clémence .

criticism

“With this adaptation René Clément has undoubtedly made the most uncompromising, most faithful and therefore darkest film adaptation of a work by Zola. His staging is safe and precise right down to the decorative details and nuances of the tone of voice, the desolation of the milieu thus becomes a filmic-critical reality. "

Awards

The film received several awards and was nominated for several other film awards. In 1957 he was awarded the British Film Academy Award , the Japanese Blue Ribbon Award , the Japanese Kinema Jumpō Prize and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for best foreign language film . François Périer received the British Film Academy Award for best foreign actor , while Maria Schell received the Coppa Volpi for best actress at the 1956 Venice Film Festival . Director René Clement received the FIPRESCI award on the one hand and was also nominated for the Golden Lion for the film on the other .

Nominations were made in addition to film producer Agnès Delahaie at the Academy Awards in 1957 for the Oscar for best foreign language film , Maria Schell for the British Film Academy Award as Best Foreign Actress .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Gervaise. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used