Jean-Joachim Goriot
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Father Goriot (French: Le père Goriot) is a 1945 French historical drama film directed by Robert Vernay and starring Pierre Renoir, Claude Génia and Lise Delamare. It is an adaptation of the 1835 novel of the same title by Honoré de Balzac .
Le Père Goriot (French pronunciation: [lə pɛʁ ɡɔʁjo], "Old Goriot" or "Father Goriot") is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.
A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer.
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.
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Jean-Joachim Goriot, a merchant who got rich during the Revolution, is obsessed with the love of his two daughters, whose social promotion he wants. He endows them richly, ruins himself to pay their debts, but Delphine and Anastasie do not return his affection and abandon him at the time of his death to run to a big ball.
