Karriere in Paris

The story

France at the time of the Restoration. The young country gentleman Rastignac comes to Paris to study. He takes up residence in a poor boarding house, where his father Goriot, who has been excluded by his daughters, also lives. The penniless Rastignac is anxious to gain a foothold in Parisian society. His cousin advises him to take the rich banker's wife Delphine, one of Goriot's daughters, as his mistress, which he does. At the same time, however, he falls in love with the laundress Yvette. He is unable to make up his mind when boarding house guest Vautrin suggests a third option: To marry Victorine, the disinherited daughter of a millionaire, and kill her brother in a duel in order to get his inheritance after all. Rastignac agrees. This is his downfall. Instead of high society, he ends up in the gutter.

Cast

E Ernst LegalGoriot U Ursula BurgAnastasie Gräfin Restaud K Klaramaria SkalaDelphine Nucingen R Ruth HausmeisterGräfin Beauséant E Erika GlässnerHerzogin von Meaufraigneuse W Wolfgang KühneGraf Restaud A Albert GarbeBankier Nucingen H Hans-Peter ThielenMaxime von Traillers E Erna SellmerMadame Vauquer G Günther BallierHerr im Ballsaal W Werner PetersDer junge Taillefer L Ludwig SachsSpieler

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U Ursula von ManesculYvette W Willy A. KleinauVautrin A Arthur WiesnerChristoph F Friedrich MaurerPoiret K Karl KendziaGobseck M Martin RosenTheaterbsitzer H Herwart GrossePolizist H Hans von UslarGraf d’Adjuda-Pinto H Heinz HinzeAgent T Theodor RochollArzt H Heino WinklerLakai V Viola ReckliesWäscherin S Susanne DüllmannWäscherin T Toni MeitzenGroupier E Eduard BornträgerHerr W Willy Kaiser-HeylHaushofmeister P Paul LipinskiKartenspieler A Albert VenohrAufseher F Friedrich KühneInvalide