Le Brasier is a French film directed by Éric Barbier, released in 1991. This was the first full-length feature film directed by Barbier.
Synopsis
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.
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 : Victor
Maruschka Detmers : Alice
Thierry Fortineau : Emile
François Hadji-Lazaro : Gros
Serge Merlin
Shooting
The film was shot in three countries: Belgium (notably at Charleroi), Poland (Świętochłowice - Lipiny) and France (at Saint-Étienne mines)