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Gervaise [ʒɛʁ.vɛz] is a 1956 French historical drama film directed by René Clément based on the 1877 novel L'Assommoir by Émile Zola. It depicts a working-class woman in the mid-nineteenth century (played by Maria Schell) trying to cope with the descent of her husband (played by François Périer) into alcoholism .
Gervaise. One of France’s most respected directors of the postwar era, René Clément created such intense psychological dramas as Forbidden Games and Purple Noon.
A poor laundrywoman tries to cope with a depressing burden of society. Gervaise Macquart, a young lame laundress, is left by her lover Auguste Lantier with two boys... She manages to make it, and a few years later she marries Coupeau, a roofer.
Gervaise Macquart (Maria Schell) is a beautiful Parisian laundress and mother whose lover, Lantier (Armand Mestral) walks out on her. She eventually marries Henri Coupeau (François Perier), a ...
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An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.
An in-depth review of the film Gervaise (1956) directed by Rene Clement, featuring Maria Schell, Francois Perier, Jany Holt
A French laundress fights to better herself despite her family's addiction to alcohol.