François Périer was a French actor renowned for his expressiveness and diversity of roles.
Anna Maria Ferrero and Périer in It Happened in the Park (1953)
Gervaise is a 1956 French film directed by René Clément based on the 1877 novel L'Assommoir by Émile Zola. It depicts a working-class woman in the mid-nineteenth century trying to cope with the descent of her husband into alcoholism.
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