''Les Misérables'' (English: "Wretched") is a 2000 French
television
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miniseries
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based on the 1862
novel of the same name by
Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romanticism, Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.
His most famous works are the novels ''The Hunchbac ...
. It was broadcast in four ninety-minute parts. The adaptation makes large changes to the novel throughout, adding many subplots that were not present in the original story and radically altering characterizations. Some of the changes include adding a subplot where
police inspector
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Australia
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Javert
Javert (), no first name given in the source novel, is a fictional character and a main antagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel ''Les Misérables.'' He was presumably born in 1780 and died on June 7, 1832. First a prison guard, and then a police i ...
goes
undercover
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Official cover
In espionage, a ...
as a student in
Marius's law school, and reimagining
Cosette
Cosette () is a fictional character in the 1862 novel ''Les Misérables'' by Victor Hugo and in the many adaptations of the story for stage, film, and television. Her birth name, Euphrasie, is only mentioned briefly. As the orphaned child of an ...
's
maid
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Toussaint as a large mute male ex-convict
manservant
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who eventually steals from Jean Valjean.
Episodes
Cast
Home media
See also
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Adaptations of ''Les Misérables''
References
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2000 French television series debuts
2000 French television series endings
2000s French television miniseries
2000s French drama television series
Television shows set in France
Television series based on Les Misérables
Television series set in the 1830s
Films directed by Josée Dayan