Les Miserables (1995) on Netflix
In Normandy, the orphaned Henri Fortin learns to box and later runs a moving company. When the Zimans flee the Nazis, they leave their daughter Salomé in his care.
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Plot summary
Henri Fortin, a chauffeur, is falsely accused of murdering his employer; his wife takes a job at a tavern on a Normandy beach, where their son Henri sees a film of the novel Les Misérables. Henri grows up an orphan, learns to box and later owns a moving company. Meanwhile the ballerina Elisa and André Ziman, a Jewish journalist and law student, meet after a ballet based on the novel. By World War II they are married with a daughter, Salomé, and try to cross into Switzerland to escape the Nazis. They meet Henri, talk with him about the novel, and entrust the girl to him.
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