A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests: Victorine Taillefer, a young lady her rich father refuses to recognize; Horace Bianchon, a medical student; Monsieur Vautrin, a mysterious and disconcerting man; Goriot, a rich merchant who spent all his fortune for his daughters, Delphine and Anastasie, to make a rich marriage. Eugène becomes friends with Goriot but while the former, thanks to his cousin Madame de Beauséant, is introduced in high society, Goriot, both exploited and scoffed at by his daughters, continues his descent into hell.
A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.
Aging opera singer Maria Callas tries to make a comeback by performing in a production of Bizet's "Carmen."
Monalisa Basarab is a Romanian film and stage actress. She was born in Tulcea, on 23 April 1972. Since 2002 and up to now she is actress at the 'Constantin Tanase' Variety Theatre, the most representative genre theatre in Romania. She started her film career in 1999 with the German movie 'Nostradamus - Prophet of Doom' in series 'Sphinx - Secrets of the History' ('Nostradamus - Prophet des Untergangs' aus der serie 'Sphinx - Geheimnisse der Geschichte' in German), directed by Klein Günther, where she plays the role of Nostradamus’ wife. Along the years she also appeared international productions, especially in French movies but also in Romanian ones.
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