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.
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Details Original title: Le Brasier Director: Éric Barbier Writers: Éric Barbier, Jean-Pierre Barbier Length: 122 minutes Format : Colour Photography : Thierry Arbogast Executive producer: Jean-François Lepetit Release date: France: 30 January 1991
Starring Jean-Marc Barr as Victor Maruschka Detmers as Alice Thierry Fortineau as Emile François Hadji-Lazaro as Gros Serge Merlin as Betaix Tolsty as Piotr Pavlak Jean-Paul Roussillon as Dalmas
Shooting The film was shot in three countries: Belgium (notably at Charleroi), Poland (Świętochłowice - Lipiny) and France (at Saint-Étienne mines)
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