France at the time of the Restoration. The young country gentleman Rastignac comes to Paris to study. He takes up residence in a poor boarding house, where his father Goriot, who has been excluded by his daughters, also lives. The penniless Rastignac is anxious to gain a foothold in Parisian society. His cousin advises him to take the rich banker's wife Delphine, one of Goriot's daughters, as his mistress, which he does. At the same time, however, he falls in love with the laundress Yvette. He is unable to make up his mind when boarding house guest Vautrin suggests a third option: To marry Victorine, the disinherited daughter of a millionaire, and kill her brother in a duel in order to get his inheritance after all. Rastignac agrees. This is his downfall. Instead of high society, he ends up in the gutter.
as Goriot
as Anastasie Gräfin Restaud
as Delphine Nucingen
as Gräfin Beauséant
as Herzogin von Meaufraigneuse
as Graf Restaud
as Bankier Nucingen
as Maxime von Traillers
as Madame Vauquer
as Herr im Ballsaal
as Der junge Taillefer
as Spieler
as Yvette
as Vautrin
as Christoph
as Poiret
as Gobseck
as Theaterbsitzer
as Polizist
as Graf d’Adjuda-Pinto
as Agent
as Arzt
as Lakai
as Wäscherin
as Wäscherin
as Groupier
as Herr
as Haushofmeister
as Kartenspieler
as Aufseher
as Invalide