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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Cast
Charles Aznavour
Jean-Joachim Goriot
Tchéky Karyo
Vautrin
Malik Zidi
Eugène de Rastignac
Maruschka Detmers
La vicomtesse de Beauséant
Nadia Barentin
Mme Vauquer
Florence Darel
Delphine de Nucingen
Rosemarie La Vaullée
Anastasie de Restaud
Pierre Vernier
Poiret
Anca Androne
Victorine Taillefer
Raluca Penu
Mme Couture
Mihai Călin
Horace Bianchon
Monalisa Basarab
Princesse de Galathionne
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