Les Mis%C3%A9rables (1995 film)

Les Misrables is a 1995 film written and directed by Claude Lelouch. Set in France during the first half of the 20th century, the film concerns a poor and illiterate man named Henri Fortin JeanPaul Belmondo who is introduced to Victor Hugos classic novel Les Misrables and begins to see parallels to his own life.

The film next takes up the story of Elisa, a ballerina, and Andr Ziman, a young Jewish journalist and law student. They meet following a performance of a ballet based on Les Misrables. Later, during World War II, Andr and Elisa, now married, and their daughter Salom attempt to cross the Swiss border to escape the Nazis. They encounter Henri, who owns a moving company, and they discuss the Hugo novel. The Zimans entrust Salom to Henri and enroll her in a Catholic convent school. Andr and Elisa are ambushed while trying to cross the frontier. Elisa is arrested and Andr wounded. Farmers who find him give him shelter.Henri and the members of a local gang join the French Resistance, but the gang members take advantage of their antiNazi attacks to steal from local houses. Elisa and other women are forced to entertain the Nazi occupiers. She is sent to a concentration camp for being defiant. After staging an attack on a train transporting funds for the Vichy government, Henri and his mates travel to Normandy to visit the tavern where he lived as a child. The DDay invasion is launched the next day and Henri supports the Allied forces when the conquer the beach. In the process he saves the life of the tavern owners son Marius. ........

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