A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests: Victorine Taillefer, a young lady her rich father refuses to recognize; Horace Bianchon, a medical student; Monsieur Vautrin, a mysterious and disconcerting man; Goriot, a rich merchant who spent all his fortune for his daughters, Delphine and Anastasie, to make a rich marriage. Eugène becomes friends with Goriot but while the former, thanks to his cousin Madame de Beauséant, is introduced in high society, Goriot, both exploited and scoffed at by his daughters, continues his descent into hell.
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Charles Aznavour
Jean-Joachim Goriot
Known for
Shoot the Piano Player
Ararat
Tchéky Karyo
Vautrin
Known for
Bad Boys
Nikita
Malik Zidi
Eugène de Rastignac
Known for
Oxygen
Made in France
Maruschka Detmers
La vicomtesse de Beauséant
Known for
First Name: Carmen
Marseille
Nadia Barentin
Mme Vauquer
Known for
On Air
A Self-Made Hero
Florence Darel
Delphine de Nucingen
Known for
The Count of Monte Cristo
Napoleon
Rosemarie La Vaullée
Anastasie de Restaud
Known for
Rosemary's Baby
Pierre Vernier
Poiret
Known for
The Outsider
The Professional
Anca Androne
Victorine Taillefer
Known for
Utopia
Anacondas: Trail of Blood
Raluca Penu
Mme Couture
Also in
Niki and Flo
Miss Christina
Mihai Călin
Horace Bianchon
Known for
Shadows
The New Year That Never Came
Monalisa Basarab
Princesse de Galathionne
Also in
The Way I Spent the End of the World
Sol Key
Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe Director · Honoré de Balzac Author Carolin Petit Composer
First release November 9, 2004 · Produced in France, Belgium, Romania · Production RTBF, Cipango
Production
France 2
Production
RTBF
Production
Cipango
Production
France · Belgium · Romania
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Languages
Original title
Le Père Goriot
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · November 9, 2004
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
February 25, 2005 · Physical · DVD
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