France at the time of the Restoration. The young country gentleman Rastignac comes to Paris to study. He takes up residence in a poor boarding house, where his father Goriot, who has been excluded by his daughters, also lives. The penniless Rastignac is anxious to gain a foothold in Parisian society. His cousin advises him to take the rich banker's wife Delphine, one of Goriot's daughters, as his mistress, which he does. At the same time, however, he falls in love with the laundress Yvette. He is unable to make up his mind when boarding house guest Vautrin suggests a third option: To marry Victorine, the disinherited daughter of a millionaire, and kill her brother in a duel in order to get his inheritance after all. Rastignac agrees. This is his downfall. Instead of high society, he ends up in the gutter.
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Ernst Legal
Goriot
Known for
Waxworks
Ursula Burg
Anastasie Gräfin Restaud
Also in
Professor Mamlock
Die Schönste
Georg C. Klaren
Joachim Barckhausen
Ernst Roters
Klaramaria Skala
Delphine Nucingen
Also in
Vienna Blood
Seine einzige Liebe
Alexander Stenbock-Fermor
Friedel Welsandt
Helmut Bautzmann
Lakai von Victorine
Hans-Georg Rudolph
Also in
Council of the Gods
The Benthin Family
Ruth Hausmeister
Gräfin Beauséant
Known for
The Bridge
Honoré de Balzac
Hans-Georg Rudolph Director · Georg C. Klaren Director Alexander Stenbock-Fermor Writer
First release January 25, 1952 · Produced in XG
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DEFA
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XG
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Original language
German
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German
Release dates
Germany · January 25, 1952
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Hungary
May 22, 1952
XC
December 19, 1952 · Theatrical
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