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Masterpiece - with no messages, impressions!?


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This is absolutely beautiful movie that depicted brilliantly life of working class in France in the late 19th century. It is based on Emil Zola's novel L'Assommoir. The main protagonist is perfectly portrayed by amazing Maria Schell and we can see well into all of Gervaise's virtues, but frailties as well and understand her emotions and strugles she endures constantly in her troubled life downfall. The ending leaves Gervaise in full misery and the director Rene Clement turns our attention to her little daughter Anna - called Nana - that will be the protagonist of another, even more famous Zola's novel of the same name.

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