Germinal is a 1963 French language French-Italian-Hungarian film directed by Yves Allégret. It is an adaptation of the 1885 novel Germinal by Emile Zola.
Plot
The year is 1863. Étienne Lantier gets work as a mineworker after having been fired from his job on the railroad for revolutionary behavior. Disheartened by the conditions in the mines, he returns to his revolutionary ideas and leads a strike of the mineworkers. Soldiers are brought in to quell the strike.
Cast
Jean Sorel as Étienne Lantier, a new young miner
Berthe Granval as Catherine Maheu, a young woman
Claude Brasseur as Marcel (or Martin) Chaval, a miner in love with Catherine
Bernard Blier as Hennebeau, the owner of a mineshaft
Claude Cerval as Victor Maigrat, a businessman
Philippe Lemaire as Henri Negrel, an engineer
Jacqueline Porel as Mme Maigrat
Lea Padovani as La Maheude
Pierre Destailles as Raseneur, an innkeeper
Paulette Dubost as Rose, Hennebeau's servant
Gabrielle Dorziat as Cécile's grandmother
Simone Valère as Madame Clotilde Hennebeau
Jacques Monod as Deneulin
Michèle Cordoue as Désir, a widow
Sándor Pécsi as Maheu, a miner
Gábor Koncz as Souvarine, a revolutionary
Marianne Krencsey as la Mouquette
Zoltán Makláry as Bonnemort, an old miner
René Lefèvre-Bel as Félix, Hennebeau's butler
See also
Germinal (1913}
Germinal (1993)