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.

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