Great Performances · SEASON 27

Les Misérables in Concert

Episode 2 · 1996-03-01

★ 9.0
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Season 27Episode 2★ 9.0/10
  • Comedy
  • Documentary
  • Drama

Episode overview

The story of the fall and redemption of Jean Valjean, arrested for stealing some bread for his starving family. In prison he's constantly bothered by the hard-nosed lawman Javert. Valjean is paroled, but runs away and becomes the mayor of a small town. He meets a dying woman named Fantine and swears to raise her daughter. Javert catches up to him, but Valjean escapes. The daughter, Cosette, grows up and falls in love with Marius, a student. An ill-fated, student-led revolution makes the mother of all climaxes for this beauty of a production. And the end with the 50 or so Valjeans is pretty impressive!

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