Set in France in the 18th century, the story is about a woodcutter who is sentenced for stealing a loaf of bread. He rebuilds his life but is pursued by a police inspector over a long period of time.
"Emphasizes the conflict between Valjean and Javert, and the treatment of criminals in the French courts of the period."
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"À l'aube du XXe siècle, Henri Fortin est injustement envoyé au bagne pour le meurtre de son patron et périt lors d'une tentative d'évasion. Plus tard, sous l'Occupation, son fils gagne sa vie comme déménageur. Il a alors l'occasion d'aider la famille du juif André Ziman à sortir du pays. Sur la route, le déménageur analphabète demande à André de lui lire des passages du roman "Les Misérables", afin de comprendre pourquoi ses amis l'ont surnommé Jean Valjean."
"Set in France in the 18th century, the story is about a woodcutter who is sentenced for stealing a loaf of bread. He rebuilds his life but is pursued by a police inspector over a long period of time."@en
"A timeless story of one man's struggle and ultimate triumph to make a place for himself in a world that cast him out. This sweeping epic takes us from the prison galleys, to the barricades of civil war, from the sewers of Paris to the ballrooms of the rich and powerful."@en
"À l'aube du XXe siècle, Henri Fortin est injustement envoyé au bagne pour le meurtre de son patron et périt lors d'une tentative d'évasion. Plus tard, sous l'Occupation, son fils gagne sa vie comme déménageur. Il a alors l'occasion d'aider la famille du juif André Ziman à sortir du pays. Sur la route, le déménageur analphabète demande à André de lui lire des passages du roman Les Misérables, afin de comprendre pourquoi ses amis l'ont surnommé Jean Valjean."
"The classic story of one man's search for freedom and another's quest for revenge."@en
"Jean Valjean est un ancien bagnard. IL accède à une vie honorable sous le nom de M. Madeleine bien décidé à combattre les injustices. Il prend sous sa protection la petite Cosette, orpheline tyranisée par un couple d'aubergistes les Thénardier. Traquée par la haine de l'inspecteur Javert, il doit toujours fuir."
"Richard Jordan stars as the heroic Valjean and Anthony Perkins is perfectly cast as the obsessive inspector who doggedly pursues him in this rich screen adaptation of the Victor Hugo epic."
"Richard Jordan stars as the heroic Valjean and Anthony Perkins is perfectly cast as the obsessive inspector who doggedly pursues him in this rich screen adaptation of the Victor Hugo epic."@en
"Historia de Jean Valjean que, dura e injustamente condenado por robar una barra de pan, se ve perseguido por la justicia a lo largo de toda su vida."@es
"Jean Valejean, a handsome young woodcutter, is cruelly sentenced to nine years in gaol for stealing a loaf of bread he took to feed his starving family. Javert, the ice-cold Inspector of Prisoners, relentlessly persecutes Valjean, determined to keep him imprisoned for life. Rated PG."
"Jean Valjean is an unemployed woodcutter who is accused of stealing food and imprisoned for 19 years. Upon his release, he attempts to bury his past and begin a new life as a respectable town mayor."
"During the Nazi occupation of France, Henri Fortin is a true and simple man whose life parallels that of Jean Valjean, the hero of the novel, Les misérables."
"Fiction. Drame. Illustration de la vie tourmentée du forçat Jean Valjean qui, régénéré par Mgr Myriel, évêque de Digne, passera toute sa vie à chercher à faire le bien, changeant de nom et de domicile chaque fois. [toutlecine.com]. Avec Harry Baur, Charles Vanel, Henry Krauss, Florelle, Gaby Triquet."
"Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France."@en
"Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France."
"An adaptation of Hugo's novel, set during the Nazi occupation of France."
"Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions of June, 1832."
"First published in 1862, Victor Hugo's monumental novel tells of the convict Jean Valjean and his relentless pursuit by the police inspector, Javert."@en
"First published in 1862, Victor Hugo's monumental novel tells of the convict Jean Valjean and his relentless pursuit by the police inspector, Javert."
"Based on Victor Hugo's classic tale of the ex-convict Valjean, whose attempts at a normal life are disrupted by the fanatical police inspector Javert, and the French revolution."@en
"During the Nazi occupation of France, Henri Fortin is a true and simple man whose life parallels that of Jean Valjean, the hero of Victor Hugo's novel, Les Misérables."
"The story of Valjean, the ex-convict who rises against all odds from galley slave to mayor, and the fanatical police inspector who dedicates his life to recapturing Valjean."
"A "rags-to-riches story of Jean Valjean, an ex-convict of remarkable strength and character who is pursued relentlessly by the police inspector Javert. Against all odds, Valjean becomes a wealthy businessman and beloved foster father to the orphaned Cosette"--Container."@en
"The timeless story of one man's struggle to make a place for himself in a world that cast him out, set against the upheaval of the French revolution."@en
"An animated version of the timeless story of one man's struggle and ultimate triumph to make a place for himself in a world that cast him out. This sweeping epic takes us from the prison galleys, to the barricades of civil war, from the sewers of Paris to the ballrooms of the rich and powerful."
"Epuisée par la vie qu'elle endure dans un bouge tenu par des "Thénardier", la mère d'Henri meurt, laissant son jeune garçon orphelin. Adulte, il connaît une brillante carrière de boxeur qu'il doit abandonner. Sous l'occupation allemande, devenu déménageur, Henri rencontre une famille juive les Ziman qu'il accepte de conduire à la frontière suisse."
"Depicts the poverty and social upheaval of 19th century France through the story of an ex-prisoner who is hounded by a fanatical police inspector."
"It is the story of love and the triumph of good over evil. The story is set in France at the turn of the 18th century."@en
"Victor Hugo's tale of 19th century France is juxtaposed with the Nazi invasion of France in World War II."
"C. Lelouch non adatta né illustra il romanzo (1862) di Victor Hugo: lo parafrasa, lo smonta, lo decodifica, lo fa interagire con la storia del Novecento, dal capodanno del 1901 sino al 1945. Si è misurato col suo potente lirismo romanzesco, e se ne è fatto positivamente contagiare. (Morandini)."@it
"Hugo's classic tale of the ex-convict Valjean, whose attempts at a normal life are disrupted by the fanatical police inspector Javert, and the French Revolution."@en
"Hugo's classic tale of the ex-convict Valjean, whose attempts at a normal life are disrupted by the fanatical police inspector Javert, and the French Revolution."
"Adaptation of the Victor Hugo story about the convict who becomes mayor, and of the police officer who pursues him."
"The story of Jean Valjean, the ex-convict who rises against all odds from galley slave to mayor, and the fanatical police inspector, Javert, who dedicates his life to recapturing Valjean."
"Qui n'a pas rugi en lisant le récit du calvaire de Jean Valjean, envoyé au bagne pour avoir volé du pain ? Qui n'a pas pleuré en suivant la lente métamorphose du bagnard devenant un père aimant au contact de la bonté ? Qui n'a pas serré les poings lorsque les généreux révolutionnaires sont le dos au mur ? Qui n'a pas frémi, palpité, espéré avec les héros de la grande fresque romantique ? Le génie de Victor Hugo n'a jamais été aussi bien servi que par le talent passionné de Robert Hossein, qui signe cette mise en images superbe du plus beau roman du monde."
"Story of Jean Valjean unfairly sentenced to years of hard labor who makes a prosperous new life for himself after prison but is relentlessly pursued by a police inspector who would ruin his life."
"Presents an adaptation of Victor Hugo's nineteenth-century novel in which Jean Valjean, a peasant sentenced to years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread, manages to escape and begins a journey that leads him from fugitive to hero, pursued all the way by vengeful Inspector Javert."
"The story of Henri Fortin, a true and simple man whose life parallels that of Jean Valjean, the hero of Victor Hugo's novel Les miserables."
""Henri Fortin is poor and iliterate former boxer. Ziman is rich Jewish lawyer from Paris. During WWII they meet when Fortin agrees to drive Ziman's family to Switzerland. Intrigued by Victor Hugo's novel 'Les misérables', Fortin asks the Zimans to read that book to him during the travel. Before the end of movie every main character would see his character in situations similar to those in Hugo's novel"--Internet movie database plot summary."
"La métamorphose d'un bagnard devenant un père aimant au contact de la bonté... Une oeuvre forte et unique mise en images avec passion..."
"It comes like lightning. The Nazis overrun France and for its proud people, it begins the most miserable of times."
"The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes. When he is released from prison, he had built up a tremendous bitterness toward society. But an unthinkable act of mercy and generosity by a saintly small-town bishop alters his life, but he is still hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert."
"Story of Jean Valjean unfairly sentenced to years hard labor who makes a prosperous new life for himself after prison but is relentlessly pursued by a police inspector who would ruin his life."
"His crime: stealing a loaf of bred. His sentence: five years in brutal prison. But resourceful Jean Valjean escapes. And grim Inspector Javert sets out to see that Valjean is recaptured...and that the state's cruel justice is served. Victor Hugo's classic work comes to powerful screen life in an acclaimed film set against the cackdrop of barricaded streets and violent political upheaval in the post Napoleonic era. Richard Jordan plays Valjean, whose heartrending odyssey from fugitive to hero forms the center of Hugo's much loved tale."@en
"Hugo's story of escaped convict Jean Valjean, who is aided by a good bishop and pursued relentlessly by the fanatical Inspector Javert, expresses the author's humanitarian interest in the suffering of the common people."@en
"During the Nazi occupation of France, Henri Fortin is a true and simple man whose life parallels that of Jean Valjean, the hero of the novel, Les Misérables."
"Resumen: El pridionero Valjean es liberado y logra convertirse en alcalde de la ciudad, allí recoge a una mujer pobre que ha vendido sus identes pero muere dejando a su hija, a quien adopta Valjean."@es
"Trying to forget his past and live an honest life, escaped convict Jean Valjean risks his freedom to take care of a motherless young girl during a period of political unrest in Paris."
"Les tribulations d'un déménageur qui vient en aide à une famille juive durant l'Occupation."
"Les misérables ; un autre homme, un autre chance Un autre homme, une autre chance / Spéciale Claude Lelouch. Avec Francis Huster, Geneviève Bujold, James Caan"
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