L'Assommoir (1908)
36m
Running Time
December 21, 1908Release Date
L'Assommoir (1908)
36m
Running Time
December 21, 1908Release 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
Actor
Gabrielle Réjane
Actress
Eugénie Nau
Gervaise
Albert Capellani
Director
Émile Zola
Writer
Catherine Fonteney
Virginie
Details.
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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).