Germinal (1993 film)
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| Directed by | Claude Berri |
| Screenplay by | Claude Berri Arlette Langmann |
| Based on | Germinal by Émile Zola |
| Produced by | Claude Berri Pierre Grunstein Bodo Scriba |
| Starring | Renaud Miou-Miou Jean Carmet Judith Henry Jean-Roger Milo Gérard Depardieu |
| Cinematography | Yves Angelo |
| Edited by | Hervé de Luze |
| Music by | Jean-Louis Roques |
| Distributed by | AMLF |
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Running time | 160 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | €27.4 million |
| Box office | $36.1 million |
Germinal is a 1993 French-Belgian epic film based on the 1885 novel by Émile Zola. It was directed by Claude Berri, and stars Renaud, Miou-Miou and Gérard Depardieu. At the time it was the most expensive movie ever produced in France. It was the fourth most attended film of the year in France.
It won the César Award for Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design, and was nominated for Best Film, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation, Best Sound, Best Editing, Best Music and Best Production Design. The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
The film, set in the nineteenth century, closely follows the plot of the novel, which is a realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s.