Alcohol and its Victims

Les victimes de l'alcoolisme
Directed byFerdinand Zecca
Written byFerdinand Zecca
Based onL'Assommoir
by Emile Zola (novel)
Production
company
Release date
  • 1902 (1902) (France)
Running time
5 min
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Les victimes de l'alcoolisme (English: Alcohol and its victims) is a 1902 French short drama film directed by Ferdinand Zecca, inspired by the 1877 naturalist novel L'Assommoir by Emile Zola. It is the first film inspired by this novel and one of first films aimed at fulfilling an objective of general social interest, in this case the fight against alcoholism.

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