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.

• Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française
• Charles Vanel
• Bruno Garcin
• Roger Jacquet
• Monique Nevers
• Elia Clermont
• Nadine Alari
• Barbara Laage
• François Tilly