Les Misérables - Jean Gabin (Film 1958 - ENG SUB)

Les Misérables is a 1958 film adaptation of the 1862 Victor Hugo novel. Written by René Barjavel, the film was directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois and stars Jean Gabin as Jean Valjean. Audio in French with English subtitles (click on CC for subtitles).

The film is a French-East German-Italian co-production and it was filmed in East Germany. Of the many film adaptations of the novel, this has been called "the one most popular with audiences in postwar France".

One noteworthy plot change was made to accommodate the fact that the actors playing the roles of Valjean and Javert were far apart in age, rather than near contemporaries as in the novel. Instead of Javert recognizing Valjean as a convict he had often guarded years earlier, he remembers how, when he was just a boy, his prison guard father had pointed out this man as "the worst kind of prisoner, who tried to escape four times".

The movie was a massive hit in France, the second most popular of 1958.

Cast & Characters:
Jean Gabin as Jean Valjean/Champmathieu
Bernard Blier as Javert (father and son)
Danièle Delorme as Fantine
Bourvil as Thénardier
Elfriede Florin as La Thénardier
Giani Esposito as Marius Pontmercy
Béatrice Altariba as Cosette
Martine Havet as young Cosette
Silvia Monfort as Éponine
Mireille Daix as young Éponine
Jimmy Urbain as Gavroche
Serge Reggiani as Enjolras
Fernand Ledoux as Monseigneur Myriel
Isabelle Lobbé as Azelma
Jean d'Yd as Mabeuf
Jean Murat as Colonel Georges Pontmercy
Lucien Baroux as Monsieur Gillenormand
Suzanne Nivette as Mademoiselle Gillenormand
Jacques Harden as Courfeyrac
Marc Eyraud as Grantaire
Werner Dissel as Brevet
Beyert as Bahorel
Hans-Ulrich Laufer as Combeferre
Gérard Darrieu as Feuilly
Pierre Tabard as Prouvaire
Henri Guégan as Laigle
Julienne Paroli as Madame Magloire
Laure Paillette as Toussaint
Madeleine Barbulée as Soeur Simplice
Christian Fourcade as Petit Gervais
Bernard Musson as Bamatabois
René Fleur as The cardinal
Ardisson as A gendarme
Jean Ozenne as The prefect of Montreuil
Gerhard Bienert as The president of the court
Harry Hindemith as Un bagnard