In 1912 Jasset turned from fantasy and spectacle to realism in making the first of two Zola adaptations, as part of Éclair's new series of social dramas. For Au pays des ténèbres, based on Germinal, he took his crew to Charleroi in Belgium to film in authentic locations, and although he updated the story to the present, he went to great lengths to recreate in the studio the detail of the actual mining galleries, exploiting the ability of film to be a recorder of contemporary reality.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Charles Krauss, André Liabel, Marcel Vibert, Cécile Guyon
Crew: Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset (Director), Émile Zola (Novel)
Country: France
Language: No Language
Studio: Société Française des Films Éclair
Runtime: 30 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jan 12, 1912
IMDb: 5.5
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