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.

About This Listing Report Omissions or Errors in This Listing

Au pays des ténèbres
Also known as The Great Mine Disaster in the USA : [The Miner’s Heart]
(1912) France
B&W : Three reels / 705 metres
Directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset

Cast: Charles Krauss [Charles Maucourt], André Liabel [Roger Joris], Marcel Vibart, Cécile Guyon [Claire Lenoir], Camille Bardou, Gilbert Dalleu, René d’Auchy, Henri Gouget, Renée Sylvaire, Madame van Doren

Société Française des Filmes et Cinématographes Éclair production. / From the novel Germinal by Émile Zola. / Released 19 January 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the USA as The Great Mine Disaster by Eclair Film Company of America through Motion Picture Distributing & Sales Company in 1912.

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: (unknown) [France]; Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 20 May 2012.

References: Sloan-Loud pp. 54, 148 : Website-IMDb.