Germinal. Zola E.

1866. The young mechanic Etienne Lantier, in search of work, comes to the Monsi minerial town - and is among the people living literally in hell, where drunkenness and stupid, non -stripped depravity are the only salvation from poverty and hard labor.

but on people - And even more so, the miners familiar to risk their lives daily, - you cannot put it endlessly. And one day they, who were tortured literally before the loss of the instinct of self -preservation, violently rise to the struggle for the best share...