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To attend in person, please CLICK HERE
Sands Films Cinema Club season of screen adaptations of the work of Emile Zola.
We start with two versions of GERMINAL made 80 years apart: first (10th Jan) the spectacular Claude Berri's adaptation (1993) and second (17th Jan) a rarely screened silent film of 1913 made in the naturalistic style of the “Theatre Libre”.
In 1884 Zola traveled to a poor rural district of France to observe the living and working conditions of striking coal miners. The novel he wrote about that experience, Germinal, was instrumental in winning justice for the workers, who existed in a condition little better than slavery.
1993 Claude Berri's ambitious epic "Germinal" recreates Zola's story. Zola, who began as a writer at a time when most novels were inspired by imagination and romance, helped pioneer a style of detailed realism, piling fact upon fact so that his books seemed drawn from real life. Berri's film has been made in the same spirit, and the elaborate sets showing the villages and mines are so convincing the movie almost seems shot on 19th century locations. (Roger Ebert)
SCREENING STARTS AT 7.30
this film is 2h 40m
This page is to obtain access to the Sands Films Cinema Club presentation ONLINE
To attend in person, please CLICK HERE
Sands Films Cinema Club season of screen adaptations of the work of Emile Zola.
We start with two versions of GERMINAL made 80 years apart: first (10th Jan) the spectacular Claude Berri's adaptation (1993) and second (17th Jan) a rarely screened silent film of 1913 made in the naturalistic style of the “Theatre Libre”.
In 1884 Zola traveled to a poor rural district of France to observe the living and working conditions of striking coal miners. The novel he wrote about that experience, Germinal, was instrumental in winning justice for the workers, who existed in a condition little better than slavery.
1993 Claude Berri's ambitious epic "Germinal" recreates Zola's story. Zola, who began as a writer at a time when most novels were inspired by imagination and romance, helped pioneer a style of detailed realism, piling fact upon fact so that his books seemed drawn from real life. Berri's film has been made in the same spirit, and the elaborate sets showing the villages and mines are so convincing the movie almost seems shot on 19th century locations. (Roger Ebert)
SCREENING STARTS AT 7.30
this film is 2h 40m