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Gervaise

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  • DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

Full screen version.

Languages

In French with English subtitles.

Performers

Maria Schell, François Périer, Suzy Delair.

Publication Information

[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2009.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

A story of mid-19th-century Parisian slums in which a young girl's dreams of a happy home and a successful laundry are cruelly destroyed by a drunken husband.

Notes

Based on Emile Zola's L'Assommoir.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1956.

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