
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.
Father Goriot

Rastignac

Vautrin

Delphine de Nucingen
Anastasie de Restaud
Mrs. Claire de Beauséant

Duchess of Langeais

Bianchon
Mrs. Vauquer

Sylvie

Christophe
Victorine Taillefer
Mrs. Couture

Mrs. Michonneau
Poiret

Count of Restaud

Maxime de Trailles
Marquess of Ajuda Pinto
Chief of Police
Valet

Valet

Valet