This 1958 adaptation of Victor Hugo’s most famous novel contains no songs, but it sure delivers the drama, the suspense, and the excitement of Hugo’s saga!

Starring Jean Gabin, France’s best actor of all time, as France’s most famous fictional character, Jean Valjean, this film will delight all the Miz lovers and those who simply love a good story!

Still considered today as the greatest adaptation of Hugo's novel, the film is absolutely faithful to the novel with the exception of one noteworthy plot change that was made to accommodate the fact that the actors playing the roles of Valjean and Javert (Bernard Blier, father of director Bertrand Blier whose film GOING PLACES plays this year at the SFFF) 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".

Do not miss one of France's first blockbusters!

Sunday, June 28 - 1:25pm
ONE SCREENING ONLY!
Q&A with film historian Chuck Zigman follows the screening.