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GERMINAL 2-VHS BOX SET VIDEO MOVIE, GERARD DEPARDIEU, JEAN CARMET, JUDITH HENRY
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- Buy it nowGERMINAL 2-VHS BOX SET VIDEO MOVIE, GERARD DEPARDIEU, JEAN CARMET, JUDITH HENRY
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- Former Rental
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- Box Set
- UPC
- 0043396726734
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GERMINAL is a lavish adaptation of Emile Zola's social reformist 1884 epic novel about striking coal miners in the Le Voreux mines. Gerard Depardieu stars as Maheu, a simple miner who struggles with his wife Maheude (Miou-Miou) and their seven children to keep from starving while toiling in the grim and deadly mines of Le Voreux. The Maheu family live in great hardship, beginning work in the pits of the mines as small children and continuing to work until elderly and crippled. When Etienne Lantier (played by French singer Renaud II), a Belgian outsider, comes to town looking for work, he is befriended by Maheu and hired alongside the hard-working family. A literate and sensitive thinker, Etienne begins to speak of social change and the grave injustice of the coal mines and eventually convinces Maheu to help him organize a miner's union and a subsequent strike. Ultimately, Maheu and Etienne lead the local peasants in a violent revolt against the wealthy owners of the mine who live in great decadence and finery.Director Berri frequently cuts between the wealthy villas and lavish meals of the French aristocracy to the deep hellish pits of the mines, where the workers earn just enough money to keep from starving, in order to instill the obvious need for social change. The awe-inspiring recreation of the claustrophobic mines and the impoverished conditions of the local peasants is absolutely astounding, painstakingly capturing the deplorable conditions of the working class. Gerard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, and Renaud (II) give deeply powerful performances in this tragic, yet rousing, epic. GERMINAL was filmed entirely on location in Lillee, Northern France.
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UPC
0043396726734
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3220147
Product Key Features
Genre
Foreign Language, Foreign Films
Director
Claude Berri
Movie/TV Title
Germinal
Leading Role
Gérard Depardieu
Sub-Genre
French
Signal Standard
NTSC
Additional Product Features
Format
Vhs
Release Date
19941130
Film Country
Belgium
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- l***o (1728)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseGreat Ebay seller, arrived quickly and securely packaged. Great price for the product.
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- s***a (326)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseQuickly shipped, very carefully packed. I had the case for this but the CD was stolen about 20 years ago. So nice to get this title back whole again, for a good price. CD plays great. Excellent seller!Happy The Man Retrospective CD **CD ONLY** NO CASE OR ARTWORK (#176937003351)