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* SeparateSceneStorytelling: the main characters, inspired by acts of heroism from the novel, would play out their own lives as if they were the characters. This meant some sequences of the novel would be dramatically played out on screen (with the actors from the Nazi era playing the characters), some scenes where the action in the 1930s paralelled events and actions from the novel, and other ways as well.
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* ShoutOut: Henri is named after the actor Henri-Marie "Harry" Baur, who played Jean Valjean in the 1934 French film version of ''Literature/LesMisérables'' and was later murdered by the Gestapo in 1943.
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In [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Nazi-occupied France]], Andre and Elisa Ziman, a Jewish couple fleeing the Nazis, entrusts their daughter Salomé to Henri. Elisa is sent to a concentration camp, Andre is wounded and tended to by a local farmer, and Henri joins the resistance. After the war, Henri helps the family reunite and faces the ghosts of his past, including a former Nazi collaborator who has set his sights on him.
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In [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Nazi-occupied German-occupied France]], Andre and Elisa Ziman, a Jewish couple fleeing the Nazis, entrusts their daughter Salomé to Henri. Elisa is sent to a [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust concentration camp, camp]], Andre is wounded and tended to by a local farmer, and Henri joins the resistance. After the war, Henri helps the family reunite and faces the ghosts of his past, including a former Nazi collaborator who has set his sights on him.
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''Les Misérables'' is a 1995 French drama film by Creator/ClaudeLelouch. The film is not an adaptation of the [[Literature/LesMiserables seminal novel of the same name]] by Creator/VictorHugo, and is not to be confused with the 1995 FilmedStageProduction of [[Theatre/LesMiserables the musical]]. However, it takes heavy inspiration from Hugo's work -- specifically, that the life of French everyman Henri Fortin (Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo) begins to parallel the novel.
In [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Nazi-occupied France]], Andre and Elisa Ziman, a Jewish couple fleeing the Nazis, entrusts their daughter Salomé to Henri. Elisa is sent to a concentration camp, Andre is wounded and tended to by a local farmer, and Henri joins the resistance. After the war, Henri helps the family reunite and faces the ghosts of his past, including a former Nazi collaborator who has set his sights on him.
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!!Tropes:
* DayOfTheJackboot: Invoked. [[spoiler:Hoping to be able to live off Andre's finances, Thénardier tells Andre that the Nazis have conquered Europe]].
* DrivenToSuicide: In the prologue, Henri's mother killed herself after learning that his father had died during a failed prison escape.
* TheEveryman: Paralleling [[Literature/LesMiserables Jean Valjean]], the protagonist Henri is really just some guy: an illiterate, orphaned, working-class man. However, his connections with the Zimans inspire good in both him and others.
* MeaningfulName: Some of the characters in the film share names with their analogues in ''Literature/LesMiserables'': for example, the young bachelor rescued by the main character in the midst of D-Day [[spoiler:who goes on to marry the film's ingenue]] is named Marius, same as Victor Hugo's Marius.
* AMinorKidroduction: The film opens on a young Henri, showing the audience how he lost his parents and his earliest exposure to ''Literature/LesMiserables''. It then jumps a few decades to World War II-era France.
* MutualKill: The farmer's wife [[spoiler:shoots her husband when he attempts to poison Andre]]. He then [[spoiler:chokes her to death as he's dying]].
* NoNameGiven: The Javert analogue policeman is not named in the film.
* RunForTheBorder: Andre and Elisa attempt to cross the Swiss border to escape the Nazis, but are caught in the attempt.
* SeparateSceneStorytelling: the main characters, inspired by acts of heroism from the novel, would play out their own lives as if they were the characters. This meant some sequences of the novel would be dramatically played out on screen (with the actors from the Nazi era playing the characters), some scenes where the action in the 1930s paralelled events and actions from the novel, and other ways as well.
* WeddingFinale: The film ends on [[spoiler:Salomé's wedding to Marius]] at Chez Jean Valjean.
''Les Misérables'' is a 1995 French drama film by Creator/ClaudeLelouch. The film is not an adaptation of the [[Literature/LesMiserables seminal novel of the same name]] by Creator/VictorHugo, and is not to be confused with the 1995 FilmedStageProduction of [[Theatre/LesMiserables the musical]]. However, it takes heavy inspiration from Hugo's work -- specifically, that the life of French everyman Henri Fortin (Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo) begins to parallel the novel.
In [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Nazi-occupied France]], Andre and Elisa Ziman, a Jewish couple fleeing the Nazis, entrusts their daughter Salomé to Henri. Elisa is sent to a concentration camp, Andre is wounded and tended to by a local farmer, and Henri joins the resistance. After the war, Henri helps the family reunite and faces the ghosts of his past, including a former Nazi collaborator who has set his sights on him.
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!!Tropes:
* DayOfTheJackboot: Invoked. [[spoiler:Hoping to be able to live off Andre's finances, Thénardier tells Andre that the Nazis have conquered Europe]].
* DrivenToSuicide: In the prologue, Henri's mother killed herself after learning that his father had died during a failed prison escape.
* TheEveryman: Paralleling [[Literature/LesMiserables Jean Valjean]], the protagonist Henri is really just some guy: an illiterate, orphaned, working-class man. However, his connections with the Zimans inspire good in both him and others.
* MeaningfulName: Some of the characters in the film share names with their analogues in ''Literature/LesMiserables'': for example, the young bachelor rescued by the main character in the midst of D-Day [[spoiler:who goes on to marry the film's ingenue]] is named Marius, same as Victor Hugo's Marius.
* AMinorKidroduction: The film opens on a young Henri, showing the audience how he lost his parents and his earliest exposure to ''Literature/LesMiserables''. It then jumps a few decades to World War II-era France.
* MutualKill: The farmer's wife [[spoiler:shoots her husband when he attempts to poison Andre]]. He then [[spoiler:chokes her to death as he's dying]].
* NoNameGiven: The Javert analogue policeman is not named in the film.
* RunForTheBorder: Andre and Elisa attempt to cross the Swiss border to escape the Nazis, but are caught in the attempt.
* SeparateSceneStorytelling: the main characters, inspired by acts of heroism from the novel, would play out their own lives as if they were the characters. This meant some sequences of the novel would be dramatically played out on screen (with the actors from the Nazi era playing the characters), some scenes where the action in the 1930s paralelled events and actions from the novel, and other ways as well.
* WeddingFinale: The film ends on [[spoiler:Salomé's wedding to Marius]] at Chez Jean Valjean.
