Jean-Joachim Goriot, a merchant who got rich during the Revolution, is obsessed with the love of his two daughters, whose social promotion he wants. He endows them richly, ruins himself to pay their debts, but Delphine and Anastasie do not return his affection and abandon him at the time of his death to run to a big ball.
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Cast
Charles Vanel
Father Goriot
Bruno Garcin
Rastignac
Roger Jacquet
Vautrin
Monique Nevers
Delphine de Nucingen
Elia Clermont
Anastasie de Restaud
Nadine Alari
Mrs. Claire de Beauséant
Barbara Laage
Duchess of Langeais
François Tilly
Bianchon
Renée Gardès
Mrs. Vauquer
Annie Savarin
Sylvie
Paul Rieger
Christophe
Kathy Fraisse
Victorine Taillefer
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