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Police inspector Javert suspects the mayor, Jean Valjean, is really a thief who broke parole many years before...
...Javert lacks adequate proof to convict Valjean but declares, "If I force a trial, the evidence will be found...
Although police inspector Javert (Todd Alan Johnson) is hot on his trail, Valjean stays with the dying Fantine in the hospital and decides to adopt her child as his own, rescuing the young Cosette (Danielle Raniere) from the clutches of the evil, greedy Thenardiers (J.P. Dougherty and Tregoeny Sheperd). Ten years later in Paris, a grown Cosette (Kate Fisher) falls in love with the student Marius (Rich Affannato), whom the Thenardiers' daughter eponine (Rona Figueroa) also secretly loves. Meanwhile, all Paris is one the brink of revolution, which breaks out with appropriate passion in Act II, bringing all the characters...
...Nazi occupation--promising, in return, to read Les Miserables to him on the way to the Swiss border. Much of the film focuses on the fracturing of this family and their terrible struggle to survive. In the meantime, of course, Fortin is obsessively pursued by his version of Inspector Javert, here a nameless policeman collaborating with the Nazis and a man seemingly as outraged by Fortin's lack of complexity as he is by his untutored goodness...
Solo leads the company, adding softness and sensitivity to Valjean's nominal roles as protagonist and patriarch. When Javert (Richard Kinsey) damns Valjean for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his family, the audience experiences Valjean's sense of injustice at his 19-year labor sentence, and lives his hope upon his parole. When Valjean protests his martyrdom while Javert blindly upholds his self-righteous resolution for law and order, we know that this will be an epic struggle...