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`Germinal' Drills Home Miners Plight

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19940318
Author:Roger Ebert

GERMINAL (STAR) (STAR) (STAR) Etienne Lantier Renaud Maheu Gerard Depardieu Maheude Miou-Miou Directed by Claude Berri. Based on the novel by Emile Zola. Running time: 160 minutes. Rated R (for intense depiction of suffering and class conflict). Opening today at the Music Box. I I n 1884 the French author Emile 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.

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