Gervaise (1956)
36K Drama Genre Amédée Armand Mestral Émile Zola Florelle François Périer Georges Paulais Gérard Darrieu Hélène Tossy Hubert de Lapparent Jacqueline Morane Jacques Harden Jacques Hilling Jany Holt Jean Aurenche Lucien Hubert Marcelle Féry Maria Schell Mathilde Casadesus Micheline Luccioni Pierre Bost Pierre Duverger Rachel Devirys René Clément Yvonne Claudie 1956 7 French René Clément West Germany
Gervaise: Directed by René Clément. With Maria Schell, François Périer, Jany Holt, Mathilde Casadesus. A poor laundrywoman tries to cope with a depressing burden of society.
“François Perier as the alcoholic Henri Coupeau is unsurpassed as sick man having his overdose and delirium by alcohol. Maria Shell as Gervaise is convincing as the poor woman working day and night for the drunken men she is having in her home and her little daughter! This movie should be shown to all people having drinking problems. As it is set in a different period (the end of the second Emperor Napoleonu0026#39;s reign) is has something universal. The general atmosphere of this epoch is however very accurate.”
