Les Misérables

French Lesson Plan

The Nazis overrun France and for its proud people, it begins the most miserable of times. Yet it's not so miserable that the goodness of one man can triumph. Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as Henri Fortin, a true and simple man whose life parallels that of Jean Valjean, the hero of Victor Hugo's great novel. But those parallels do not mean a simple updating of Hugo's tale. Instead, director Claude Lelouch uses them to frame a towering cascade of events, traits, and emotions: nobility, suffering, persistence, joy, hate, longing, love, greed, betrayal, war, peace, and life-affirming joy and hope. IMDB

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