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.
Acting
Aznavour's Goriot breaks your heart with every wheeze.
Production
Madame Vauquer's boarding house reeks of cabbage and desperation.
Director
Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe
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
Mihai Călin
Horace Bianchon
Monalisa Basarab
Princesse de Galathionne
Vlad Ivanov
Gondureau
Luana Stoica
Sylvie
Dominique Labourier
Mlle Michonneau
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Charles Aznavour, a legendary singer, reportedly took the role because his own father had sacrificed everything for his career.
This TV adaptation was part of France's massive 2000s 'Comédie Humaine' project—basically Balzac cinematic universe before Marvel made it cringe.
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