56 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestEtienne realized his failure and fell into despair. Some, like Maheude, don't want to give up, but they're in the minority. Most agreed to go back to work. But they don't know that Souvarine, true to his principles, has sabotaged the Voreux shaft. As the miners descend in the morning, an accident occurs.
Hired in the Montsou mines, Étienne Lantier meets the Maheu family and falls in love with their daughter Catherine.
Production
The mine sets are claustrophobically authentic—you can taste the coal dust.
Acting
Thierry Godard's Maheu carries generations of exhaustion in his shoulders.
Creator
Julien Lilti
Louis Peres
Étienne Lantier
Thierry Godard
Maheu
Alix Poisson
La Maheude
Rose-Marie Perreault
Catherine Maheu
Guillaume de Tonquédec
Philippe Hennebeau
Natacha Lindinger
Mme Hennebeau
Valéria Cavalli
Mme Grégoire
Marilou Aussilloux
Cécile Grégoire
Jonas Bloquet
Antoine Chaval
Steve Tientcheu
Rasseneur
Sami Bouajila
Victor Deneulin
Stefano Cassetti
Souvarine
Aliocha Schneider
Paul Négrel
Steve Driesen
Charles Bressan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This adaptation coincided with 2021 French labor protests, making its 1885 source text uncomfortably contemporary.
Rose-Marie Perreault is Québécois; her French-Canadian accent was controversially kept for Catherine, marking her as 'other' in the mining community.
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