
A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests: Victorine Taillefer, a young lady her rich father refuses to recognize; Horace Bianchon, a medical student; Monsieur Vautrin, a mysterious and disconcerting man; Goriot, a rich merchant who spent all his fortune for his daughters, Delphine and Anastasie, to make a rich marriage. Eugène becomes friends with Goriot but while the former, thanks to his cousin Madame de Beauséant, is introduced in high society, Goriot, both exploited and scoffed at by his daughters, continues his descent into hell.

as Jean-Joachim Goriot

as Vautrin

as Eugène de Rastignac

as La vicomtesse de Beauséant

as Mme Vauquer

as Delphine de Nucingen

as Anastasie de Restaud

as Poiret

as Victorine Taillefer

as Mme Couture

as Horace Bianchon

as Princesse de Galathionne

as Gondureau

as Sylvie

as Mlle Michonneau

as Thérèse

as L'étudiant

as Le marquis d'Ajuta-Pinto

as Le baron de Nucingen

as Christophe

as Le peintre