Underplayed Gems

Le Brasier (1991)

Le Brasier poster
Directed by
Éric Barbier
Genre
drama film
Country
France
Runtime
2h 02m
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

In 1930s France, a mining community fights social struggles. The film follows the conflicts and hardships of the workers.

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What happens

Le Brasier is a French film directed by Éric Barbier, released in 1991. This was the first full-length feature film directed by Barbier. Based around the social struggles of a mining area in the 1930s, Le Brasier was the first French film to have a budget of more than 100 million francs, the highest budget in the history of French cinema at that point. The film was a commercial disaster, selling less than 40,000 tickets in the Paris region. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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