Overview
Jean-Joachim Goriot, a merchant who got rich during the Revolution, is obsessed with the love of his two daughters, whose social promotion he wants. He endows them richly, ruins himself to pay their debts, but Delphine and Anastasie do not return his affection and abandon him at the time of his death to run to a big ball.
Cast
Father Goriot
Rastignac
Vautrin
Delphine de Nucingen
Anastasie de Restaud
Mrs. Claire de Beauséant
Duchess of Langeais
Bianchon
Mrs. Vauquer
Sylvie
Christophe
Victorine Taillefer