Gervaise

Release Date:

Nov 11, 1957

Running Time:

1:56

Genre:

Drama

Director:

René Clément

Cast:

Maria Schell	Gervaise Macquart Coupeau
François Perier	Henri Coupeau
Suzy Delair	Virginie Poisson
Armand Mestral	Auguste Lantier
Jacques Harden	Goujet

Language:

English

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Gervaise Macquart is a beautiful Parisian laundress and mother whose lover, Lantier walks out on her. She eventually marries Henri Coupeau, a roofer who has an unfortunate accident. As her now crippled husband descends into alcoholism, Gervaise tries to make ends meet on her own. Life becomes even more complicated when Lantier returns and befriends Henri. Meanwhile, the man she really loves, Goujet, is sent to prison.

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