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.
Plot 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.
Cast 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
See also Germinal (1913) Germinal (1993)
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