Germinal (1993 film)

Germinal
Directed by	Claude Berri
Produced by	Claude Berri, Pierre Grunstein, Bodo Scriba
Written by	Claude Berri, Arlette Langmann, Émile Zola (novel)
Starring	Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou and Renaud.
Music by	Jean-Louis Roques
Cinematography	Yves Angelo
Editing by	Hervé de Luze
Release dates	29 September 1993 (1993-09-29) (France)
Running time	160 min.
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	$27 million[1]
Box office	$36,970,656[2]

Germinal is a 1993 French epic film based on the novel by Émile Zola. It was directed by Claude Berri, and stars Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou and Renaud. At the time it was the most expensive movie ever produced in France. The film had 6,161,776 admissions in France making it the 4th most attended film of the year.^[3]

It won the César Award for Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design, and was nominated for Best Film, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best director, Best Writing, Best Sound, Best Editing, Best Music and Best Production Design.

The film, set in the nineteenth century, closely follows the plot of the novel, which is a realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s.

Cast

• Miou-Miou - Maheude
• Renaud - Étienne Lantier
• Gérard Depardieu - Toussaint Maheu
• Jean Carmet - Vincent Maheu dit Bonnemort
• Judith Henry - Catherine Maheu
• Jean-Roger Milo - Chaval
• Laurent Terzieff - Souvarine
• Bernard Fresson - Victor Deneulin
• Jean-Pierre Bisson - Rasseneur
• Jacques Dacqmine - Philippe Hennebeau
• Anny Duperey - Madame Hennebeau
• Gérard Croce - Maigrat
• Frédéric van den Driessche - Paul Négrel
• Annick Alane - Madame Grégoire
• Pierre Lafont - Léon Grégoire
• Yolande Moreau - La Levaque

References

External links

• Germinal at the Internet Movie Database