Les Miserables

“In a time of chaos, in a world of change, he was moved by a book he could not read to become a hero he never imagined.”

Henri Fortin (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is poor and cannot read, working through France in the first half of the twentieth century. When the war arrives, someone puts Victor Hugo's Les Misérables in front of him, and he starts to find his own life on its pages. Claude Lelouch sets him beside the Zimans, André (Michel Boujenah) and Elise (Alessandra Martines), a family whose fate becomes tied to his.