In the Land of Darkness

In the Land of Darkness

5.5

Jan 12 1912

1h 30m

Drama

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.

Charles Krauss

Charles Krauss

Charles Maucourt

André Liabel

André Liabel

Roger Joris

Marcel Vibert

Marcel Vibert

Cécile Guyon

Cécile Guyon

Claire Lenoir

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