L'Assommoir

Name: L'Assommoir
Genre: Drama
Released: 1908-12-21
Duration: 36 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Alexandre Arquillière, Jacques Grétillat, Eugénie Nau, Catherine Fonteney, Mansuelle

L'Assommoir (1908)

0:36 (36 min)

Drama

France

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Production

Société cinématographique des auteurs et gens de lettres (SCAGL), Pathé Frères

Release date

21 December 1908

Director

Albert Capellani

Scenario

Émile Zola

Author

Producer

Pierre Decourcelle

All team (4)

Actors

Alexandre Arquillière

Coupeau

Jacques Grétillat

Lantier

Eugénie Nau

Gervaise

Catherine Fonteney

Virginie

Mansuelle

Mes-Bottes

Bazin

Bec-Salé

Lucien Callamand

Bibi

Irma Perrot

Madame Boche

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Short description

Everyman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful Virginie. Based on Zola's novel, Capellani's film is about the free fall of a group of working-class French folk into degradation and tragedy due to carelessness, jealousy, and alcohol abuse. At the time of its release, L'Assommoir was hugely successful.