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