Les miserables
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men’s lives…
- Director:Bille August
- Genre:Crime | Drama | History | Romance
- Runtime:128 minutes
Cast
Christopher Adamson : Bertin
Tim Barlow : Lafitte
Timothy Bateson : Banker
Veronika Bendová : Azelma
David Birkin : Courfeyrac
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The movie follows Jean Valjean (Liam Neeson), a man arrested for stealing bread. When released on parole, Valjean stays with a bishop as no one else was willing to allow a convict to stay the night. Through the kindness of the bishop, who Valjean attempted to rob, Valjean starts his life anew. He becomes a wealthy industrialist and a mayor. He eventually befriends Fantine (Uma Thurman), a single mother-turned-prostitute whom he rescued when she was nearly arrested by the police officer Javert (Geoffrey Rush). Javert was also a guard previously at the prison Valjean was held in and starts to become suspicious that the Mayor and Valjean are the same person. When Valjean receives word that another man is mistaken as him and about to be rearrested, he reveals his identity. When he visits Fantine, he finds that she is deathly ill and he promises to raise her very young daughter, Cosette. When Fantine dies, Valjean escapes from Javert and buys Cosette from the Thénardiers, corrupt innkeepers who were supposed to care for her (but were actually abusing and enslaving her).
Many years later, a teenage Cosette (Claire Danes) falls in love with a revolutionary, Marius (Hans Matheson). By this time, the trail of Valjean is cold, and Javert is undercover as an insurrectionist trying to undermine the organization to which Marius belongs. Javert, however, is captured by Marius and is brought to the barricades as a prisoner to be executed. Valjean journeys to the barricades himself when he learns how much Cosette and Marius love each other, intending to convince Marius to return to Cosette. When the soldiers shoot and kill Gavroche (Shane Hervey), a young boy allied with the revolutionists, Valjean uses his influence with Marius to have Javert turned over to him, to execute him. Instead of killing him however, Valjean frees Javert. The movie ends with Javert, unable to reconcile the goodness shown to him by Valjean with his perfectly lawful existence, freeing him, then committing suicide. Valjean is finally free. Read more
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