Germinal (1963 film)

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.

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.

• 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

• Germinal (1913)
• Germinal (1993)

• Germinal at IMDb

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