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.
Charles Aznavour
as Jean-Joachim Goriot
Tchéky Karyo
as Vautrin
Malik Zidi
as Eugène de Rastignac
Maruschka Detmers
as La vicomtesse de Beauséant
Nadia Barentin
as Mme Vauquer
Florence Darel
as Delphine de Nucingen
Rosemarie La Vaullée
as Anastasie de Restaud
Pierre Vernier
as Poiret
Anca Androne
as Victorine Taillefer
Raluca Penu
as Mme Couture
Mihai Călin
as Horace Bianchon
Monalisa Basarab
as Princesse de Galathionne
