Gervaise
(1956)|
In this adaptation of Émile Zola's novel L'Assommoir that won a BAFTA Award for Best Film, Maria Schell plays the title character, a crippled laundress who's been abandoned, along with her two sons, by her lover. Eventually, she marries blue-collar worker Henri Coupeau (François Périer, who won a BAFTA for Best Actor) and realizes her dream of running her own laundry. But the scourge of Coupeau's alcoholism threatens to ruin everything.
 Not rated. This movie has not been rated by the MPAA.
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