Le Père Goriot

Eugene de Rastignac, a young man pursuing studies by the right resulting from an aristocratic, ingenuous family provincial “gone up” in Paris, arrives at the Vauquer mansion. He binds friendship with the Father Goriot, ex-merchant of vermiculation who grew fabulously rich during the Revolution, and who is plugged by the love that he holds in his daughters, Anastasie and Delphine. Married above their condition, they waste the fortune of their father. Rastignac undertakes to allure Delphine, married with the rich banker Nucingen, who lives in the gilded districts of finance and becomes its lover. Behind this varnished glow, the young man quickly discovers the selfishness of the daughters and his own financial difficulties, and tries despite everything, in vain, to bring them closer their father. But the adored daughters come back once again only to overpower the old man, who does not have any more any means of leading his own simple, pathetic life, let alone settling their debts. All he has left are his shoes, some clothes, and some silver spoons. He still sells what he can to try and see his daughters smiling and happy.. The landlady of the boarding house wherein Goriot lives in the attic takes pity on him and lets him stay. Meanwhile, the other members of the boarding house provide some comic relief. One is a convicted criminal living there under disguise, some students, a couple and then there is Rastignac. The criminal tries to use the young man's rapport with Goriot's daughters to marry and cheat them. Eventually, he gets handed over to the police.
Goriot's health worsens as his old age takes its toll. His daughters still never care for their father. The story finally ends with the miserable burial of the old man. One where the two students and Rastignac are the only mourners and they do not have money to pay to the undertaker..

Charles Aznavour (Goriot)
Tchéky Karyo (Vautrin)
Malik Zidi (Rastignac)
Nadia Barentin (Mrs. Vauquer)
Maruschka Detmers (Viscountess de Beauséant)
Florence Darel (Delphine de Nugingen)
Rosemarie Vaullée (Anastasie de Restaud)
Pierre Sliding gauge (Poiret)
Anca-Ioana Androne (Victorine Taillefer)
Raluca Penu (Mrs. Couture)
Mihai Calin (Blanchon)
Vladimir Ivanov (Gondureau)
Luana Stoica (Sylvie)
Eugen Cristea (the baron de Nucingen)
Lamia Beligan (Thérèse)