Les Misérables

In a time of chaos, in a world of change, he was moved by a book he could not read to become a hero he never imagined.

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 Miserables', 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.

Direction

Claude Lelouch

Screenplay

Victor Hugo

Claude Lelouch