Name: Les Miserables
Genre: Drama
Released: 1958
Duration: 3 h 30 min

Les Miserables (1958)

Directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Genres - Drama | Sub-Genres - Melodrama, Period Film | Run Time - 210 min. | Countries - France | MPAA Rating - NR

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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

Victor Hugo's monumental novel Les Miserables has been filmed so often that sometimes it's hard to tell one version from another. One of the best and most faithful adaptations is this 240-minute French production, starring Jean Gabin as the beleagured Jean Valjean. Arrested for a petty crime, Valjean spends years 20 in the brutal French penal system. Even upon his release, his trail is dogged by relentless Inspector Javert (Bernard Blier). Valjean's efforts to create a new life for himself despite the omniprescence of Javert is meticulously detailed in this film, which utilizes several episodes from the Hugo original that had hitherto never been dramatized. Originally released as a single film, Les Miserables was usually offered as a two-parter outside of France.

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Themes

Class Differences | Political Unrest | Social Injustice

Keywords

accusation, against-all-odds, battle [war], captive, captor, child, criminal, escape, escaped-convict, false-accusation, humanity, injustice, love, orphan, poverty, redemption, revolution, robbery, romance