Le Brasier

Le Brasier is a French film directed by Éric Barbier, released in 1991. This was the first full-length feature film directed by Barbier.

Synopsis
Based around the social struggles of a mining area in the 1930s, Le Brasier was the first French film to have a budget of more than 100 million francs, the highest budget in the history of French cinema at that point. The film was a commercial disaster, selling less than 40,000 tickets in the Paris region.

Details

 * Original title: Le Brasier
 * Director: Éric Barbier
 * Writers: Éric Barbier, Jean-Pierre Barbier
 * Length: 122 minutes
 * Format : Colour
 * Photography : Thierry Arbogast
 * Executive producer: Jean-François Lepetit
 * Release date: France: 30 January 1991

Starring

 * Jean-Marc Barr : Victor
 * Maruschka Detmers : Alice
 * Thierry Fortineau : Emile
 * François Hadji-Lazaro : Gros
 * Serge Merlin

Shooting

 * The film was shot in three countries: Belgium (notably at Charleroi), Poland (Świętochłowice - Lipiny) and France (at Saint-Étienne mines)