Germinal

Theatrical Release Date:

05/01/1994

Run Time:

158min.

Starring:

Gérard Depardieu , Miou-Miou , Jean Carmet , Judith Henry

Director(s):

Claude Berri

Distributor(s):

AMLF

MPAA Rating:

R for intense depiction of suffering and class conflict.

Genre(s):

Foreign

Plot: Claude Berri's angry, ambitious epic, based on the 19th-century novel by Emile Zola, re-creates, as does the novel, the gut-wrenching poverty and the intense day-by-day struggles of striking French coal-miners in 1884 at the Voreux mines of France. Read More