MOVIE · 1982
Les Misérables
Drama220 min
After serving time for stealing bread, Jean Valjean tries to outrun the past in 19th-century France while the relentless Inspector Javert closes in. Lino Ventura is Valjean, a former prisoner whose flight from the law keeps widening into a larger struggle for survival, and Michel Bouquet’s Javert turns that pursuit into an obsession. As the years pass, their conflict moves through a country marked by poverty, rigid justice, and political unrest, until Valjean is swept into the student revolutions in France.
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