Les Misérables (1934 film)
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Release date February 9, 1934 (1934-02-09) Cast (Jean Valjean / Champmathieu), Paul Azaïs (Grantaire), (Fantine), (Cosette), (Marius Pontmercy), (Éponine)Similar movies Blackhat , Inception , Burnt , The Lion King , Thor , Pulp Fiction |
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Les Misérables is a 1934 film adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel of the same name. It was written and directed by Raymond Bernard and stars Harry Baur as Jean Valjean and Charles Vanel as Javert. The film lasts four and a half hours and is considered by critics to be the greatest adaptation of the novel, due to its in-depth development of the themes and characters in comparison with most shorter adaptations.
Contents
- Les mis rables 1934 bande annonce hd
- Plot
- Cast
- Differences from the novel
- Critical reaction
- Home video
- References

It was released as three films that premiered over a period of three weeks.

Plot

Jean Valjean is an ex-convict struggling to redeem himself, but his attempts are continually ruined by the intrusion of Javert into his life. Javert is a cruel, ruthless police inspector who has dedicated his life to pursuing Valjean, whose only crime was stealing a loaf of bread, for which he gets 5 years in jail. And then he serves an additional 14 years for a handful of escape attempts.

The film, like the novel, features numerous other characters and plots, such as Fantine, a woman forced into prostitution to help pay two cruel innkeepers, the Thénardiers, who are looking after her daughter Cosette, and the story of the revolutionaries, including Marius, a young man who falls in love later on in the film with the now-adult Cosette.
Cast

Differences from the novel
The film is, for the most part, faithful to the original novel, however, there are some differences:

Critical reaction

The film has been referred to as "the most complete and well rounded adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel".

Raymond Bernard's version of Les Misérables was chosen by curator Robert Herbert as one of a number of films to support an exhibition of French drawings held in 2010 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. The Exhibition was entitled David to Cézanne: master drawings from the Prat Collection, Paris. It ran from 22 September until 5 December 2010. The film was screened 30 October, 3 November and 7 November in the Gallery's Domain Theatre.
Home video
The Criterion Collection released Les Misérables under the Eclipse label, along with Bernard's Wooden Crosses (1932) in the Raymond Bernard DVD collection on July 17, 2007.
This version runs around twenty minutes shorter than the original release, although it is entirely possible that the five-hour-and-five-minute running time may be inaccurate, or counts intermissions from the original release that are not included in the Criterion release. The liner notes for the DVD describe how the film was reissued at varying lengths over the following decades and was only restored to approximately its original length shortly before Raymond Bernard's death, minus some scenes that could not be recovered.