Gritty adaptation of Emile Zola's 19th-century novel about class injustice, centering on a miner (Gerard Depardieu) who finds himself the leader of a strike. Renaud. Maheude: Miou-Miou. Bonnemort: Jean Carnet. Catherine: Judith Henry. Chaval: Jean-Roger Milo. Souvarine: Laurent Terzieff. Directed by Claude Berri.