Le Brasier is a French

France

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 film directed by Eric Barbier, released in 1991

1991 in film

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Synopsis

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.

Details

• Original title: Le Brasier
• Director: Eric Barbier
• Writers: Eric Barbier, Jean-Pierre Barbier
• Length: 122 minutes
• Format : Colour
• Photography : Thierry Arbogast
  Thierry Arbogast
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• Executive producer: Jean-François Lepetit
• Release date: France: 30 January 1991
  1991 in film
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Starring

• Jean-Marc Barr
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   : Victor
• Maruschka Detmers
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   : Alice
• Thierry Fortineau : Emile
• François Hadji-Lazaro : Gros
• Serge Merlin

Awards

• The film won awards in three countries: Belgium
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   (notably at Charleroi
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  ), Poland
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   (Swietochlowice - Lipiny) and France
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   (at Saint-Étienne
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  mines)