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Currently there are about twenty filmings of Victor Hugo`s masterpiece !
(Some movies are only about parts of Les Mis.)
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Year
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Televised first in Germany in ...
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Comments
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| LesMisérables Three parts |
USA | 1909 | ---- | Silent film 1) The Price of a Soul 2) The Ordeal 3) A New Life |
| "LesMisérables" Four parts |
USA | 1909 | ---- | Silent film 1) The Galley Slave 2) Fantine 3) Cosette 4) Jean Valjean |
| "LesMisérables" Nine parts |
France | 1912 | 1912 | Silent film |
| "LesMisérables" | USA | 1918 | ---- | Silent film |
| "Tense Moments With Great Authors" The 2nd part was about LesMis |
GB | 1922 | ---- | Silent film Based on parts of the novel. |
| "LesMisérables" Series in 4 parts D: Mensch unter Menschen (Teil 1 + 2) |
France | 1925 | 1927 | Silent film 1) Prologue et Fantine 2) Cosette 3) Marius 4) L´epopée Rue Saint-Denis In Germany the film was broadcasted in a cut version only. |
| "The Bishop`s Candlesticks" | USA | 1929 | ---- | Only one part of the novel. |
| "LesMisérables" Series in three parts D: Die Verdammten |
France | 1933 | 1949 | |
| "LesMisérables" D: Die Elenden |
USA | 1935 | 1976 (ZDF) |
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| Gavroche | Russia Mosfilm |
1937 | 1948 (Austria) |
Only about the boy Gavroche ! 76 minutes |
| "LosMiserables" | Mexico Azteka Studios |
1944 | ---- | Based on parts of Hugo`s novel |
| "El Bouassa´" | Egyptn | 1944 | ---- | |
| "I Miserabili" Two parts |
Italy Lux Produzione |
1948 | ---- | |
| "Ezai Padum Padu" | India (Tamil) Pakshiraja Studios |
1950 | ---- | |
| "LesMisérables" | Japan | 1950 | ---- | |
| "LesMisérables" D: Die Legion der Verdammten |
USA 20th Century-Fox |
1952 | 1953 | |
| "Kundan" | India (Hindi) Minerva Movietone, Bombay |
1955 | ---- | |
| "LesMisérables-I Miserabili" D:Die Elenden (GDR) Die Miserablen (FRG) |
France, Italy, East-Germany D: Defa-Technirama / Technicolor |
1958 | 1959 (GDR) 1960 (FRG) |
The original is 215 minutes long ! The Defa-version consists of two parts. The version for West-Germany takes 159 minutes. |
| "LesMisérables" | USA Norman Rosemont Productions ITC Productions |
1978 | ---- | An American TV-production. Televised first at 27th December 1978 on CBS |
| "LesMisérables" D: Die Legion der Verdammten |
France/Italy | 1982 | 1983 | 183 minutes |
| Les Misérables | USA SONY Tristar Constantin Film |
1998 | 1998 | Great cinema version by Bille August ! With Claire Danes, Uma Thurman, Liam Neeson... 133 minutes |