Les MiserablesDirected by Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Produced by Production Artistique et Cinématographique (PAC), Pathé Films
Genres : Fiction - Runtime : 3 h 37 min
French release : 12/03/1958
Production year : 1958
DirectorActorsSynopsis The bishop's background is briefly sketched rather than detailed as in the novel. Javert is a young boy, the son of a guard in the Toulon prison, when he sees Valjean as a convict. Sister Simplice admits Valjean and Cosette to the convent instead of Father Fauchevent. Thénardier, in disguise, meets Marius and proves to him with the help of newspaper clippings that he is completely mistaken about Valjean's criminal past. Source : Wikipedia About Production Called "the most memorable film version", it was filmed in East Germany and was overtly political. Of the many film adaptations of the novel, this has been called "the one most popular with audiences in postwar France". One noteworthy plot change was made to accommodate the fact that the actors playing the roles of Valjean and Javert were far apart in age, rather than near contemporaries as in the novel. Instead of Javert recognizing Valjean as a convict he had often guarded years earlier, he remembers how, when he was just a boy, his prison guard father had pointed out this man as "the worst kind of prisoner, who tried to escape four times". Release The New York Times described it as one of the first French "blockbusters" that appeared in response to such lengthy feature films as Around the World in 80 Days and The Ten Commandments. It said it was "a ponderous four-hour retelling of Victor Hugo's oft-filmed epic.... Not a page is skipped... Too literary, it has the saving grace of Jean Gabin's truly heroic depiction of Jean Valjean plus some stirring scenes on the barricades." It was a "quintessential Gabin role ... that of a loner, an outsider, usually a member of the lower orders who may flirt with love and happiness but knows they are not for him". The film did not premiere in New York until July 1989, when it ran to coincide with the celebration of the bicentennial of the French Revolution. Source : Wikipedia Posters gallery (2)Production and distributionAssociate production company : Production Artistique et Cinématographique (PAC), Pathé Films
Foreign production company : Defa Studio Babelsberg, Serena Film
Film export/Foreign Sales : Pathé Distribution
Full creditsAdaptation/Dialogue Writers : Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Michel Audiard, René Barjavel
Dialogue Writers : Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Michel Audiard, René Barjavel
Author of original work : Victor Hugo
Producers : André Hunebelle, Adrien Remaugé, Pierre Cabaud, René Bezard
Screenwriters : Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Michel Audiard, René Barjavel
Director of Photography : Jacques Natteau
Sound Recordist : Nathalie Baye
Sound Assistant : René Sarazin
Assistant Operators : Jacques Lacourie, Max Lechevallier
Camera Operators : Henri Tiquet, Alain Douarinou
Production Managers : Louis Duchesne, Paul Cadéac
Editor : Emma Le Chanois
Assistant Editor : Jacqueline Aubery
Continuity supervisor : Geneviève Cortier
Production Designer : Serge Pimenoff
Music Composer : Georges Van Parys
Costume Designer : Marcel Escoffier
Narrator : Jean Topart
Still Photographer : Roger Corbeau
Location Manager : Jean Feix
Technical detailsFeature film
Genres : Fiction
Sub-genre : Literary adaptation , Drama
Themes : Fate
Production language : French
Nationality : Majority French (Germany, Italy, France)
Production year : 1958
French release : 12/03/1958
Runtime : 3 h 37 min
Current status : Released
Visa number : 15430
Visa issue date : 04/03/1958
Approval : Unknown
Production formats :
35mm
Color type : Color
Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
Sound format : Mono
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