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L'Assommoir (1908)

36m

Running Time

December 21, 1908
Release Date

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L'Assommoir (1908)

Name: L'Assommoir
Genre: Drama
Released: 1908-12-21

36m

Running Time

December 21, 1908
Release Date

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Plot.

Everyman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful Virginie. Based on Zola's novel, Capellani's film is about the free fall of a group of working-class French folk into degradation and tragedy due to carelessness, jealousy, and alcohol abuse. At the time of its release, L'Assommoir was hugely successful.

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Cast & Crew.

Alexandre Arquillière

Coupeau

Jacques Grétillat

Lantier

Jacques Varennes

Gabrielle Réjane

Eugénie Nau

Gervaise

Antoine

Henri Gouget

Catherine Fonteney

Virginie

Mansuelle

Mes-Bottes

Bazin

Bec-Salé

Lucien Callamand

Bibi

Irma Perrot

Madame Boche

Marie-Louise Roger

Nana

Albert Capellani

Director / Writer

Émile Zola

Novel

Michel Carré

Writer

Pierre Decourcelle

Producer

Harry Baur

Paul Capellani

Details.

Release Date
December 21, 1908

Status
Released

Running Time
36m

Genres
Drama

Last updated: 2023-11-12

Wiki.

L'Assommoir (English: The Drinking Den) is a 1909 French drama film directed by Albert Capellani, adapting the eponymous 1879 play by William Busnach et Octave Gastineau, itself based on the 1877 novel by Emile Zola. It is the first French feature-length film and the second produced by the Société cinématographique des auteurs et gens de lettres (SCAGL) [fr] (English: Cinematographic Society of Authors and Writers).