Germinal (1993) on Netflix
Étienne Lantier comes to the Le Voreux mine in northern France looking for work. Maheu takes him on, and Catherine works beside him. Étienne urges the miners to strike.
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Plot summary
In the mid-nineteenth century, a coal mining town in northern France works the Le Voreux pit. Étienne Lantier, an engineer who has lost his last job for hitting his former boss, arrives looking for work. The miners, worn out and poorly paid, ignore him until Maheu, a father of eight with children of his own underground, takes him onto his team. Catherine, Maheu's daughter, works beside her father and takes an interest in Étienne. He lodges with the family when their eldest son marries and the household needs his rent money. Philippe Hennebeau, the mine's director, has cut the price paid for each cart of coal. Étienne debates Rasseneur, a socialist, and Souvarine, an anarchist, about conditions in the pit, then urges the miners to strike, and Maheu leads them out.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Germinal (1993)
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- Claude Berri's 1993 adaptation of Émile Zola's novel Germinal was, at the time, the most expensive movie ever produced in France.
- Émile Zola wrote the novel after spending about a week with striking miners in northeastern France, where he took a thousand pages of notes before releasing it in 1884.
