Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emile Zola's thirteenth and most successful novel in his Rougon-Macquart series, in which a strike breaks out in a destitute French mining village.

Contrast such an approach to human experience with a novel such as Émile Zola’s Germinal (1885). Zola’s depiction of a coal mining community in northern France is stark, at times brutal, and ...

“Germinal,” adapted from the 13th novel in Zola’s 20-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart, is the 1884 tale of a life-or-death miners’ strike with its realistic depictions of hardscrabble lives.

Gritty and magnetic, French series ‘Germinal’ depicts a coal miners’ strike and its aftermath We are transported to Northern France in this adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1885 novel that ...

After “Germinal” has run its nearly three-hour course, an American viewer must wonder if this is the best France can do with one of its enduring classics, or if something terrible happened to ...

A modern adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1885 masterpiece, “Germinal” tells the story of a coalminers’ strike in northern France in the 1860s. Julien Lilti, ...

Learn more about the full cast of Germinal with news, photos, videos and more at TV Guide. ... Émile Zola. Charles Spaak. Actor 20 Credits. Jean Sorel. Étienne Lantier.

Emile Zola - Germinal. Classic Serial. Emile Zola's masterpiece brought vividly to life, dramatised by Diana Griffiths. Set in 1860s France, ...

TEHRAN – A Persian translation of French writer Emile Zola’s graphic novel “Germinal” has recently been published by Chatrang Publications in Tehran. Mahmud Gudarzi has translated the book into ...