Victor Valance, an absent father and gambler, works with shady casino operations abroad. When he returns to Paris in need of money, he plans to take...
Jean-Joachim Goriot, a merchant who got rich during the Revolution, is obsessed with the love of his two daughters, whose social promotion he wants....
At the start of the First World War, two next-door neighbors find themselves companions in misfortune. Faced with the horror of the trenches and the...