A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Photograph: Photoplay Productions collection; courtesy Le Giornate del Cinema Muto.

Cast: Armand Bour [Père Fouan], René Alexandre [Jean Macquart, un ouvrier agricole], Germaine Rouer [Françoise], Jean Hervé [Louis Buteau], Milo (Émile Mylo) [Hyacinthe dit Jésus-Christ], Berthe Bovy [la trouille], Jeanne Briey [Lise], Jeanne Grumbach [la cognette], Émile Desjardins [un berger (the shepherd)], Max Charlier [Becu], René Hiéronimus [Nenesse], Michel Floresco [le clerc de notaire], Armand Numès, Léon Malavier

Pathé Frères production; distributed by Pathé Frères. / Scenario by André Antoine, from a novel by Émile Zola. Assistant directors, Julien Duvivier and Georges Denola. Cinematography by Léonce-Henri Burel, Paul Castanet, René Gaveau and René Guichard. / Released 13 October 1921. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the Cinémathèque française film archive.

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Listing updated: 6 January 2023.

References: Bardèche-History p. 148; Shipman-Cinema p. 75 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.