[Movie Script]Les Miserables

                               LES MISERABLES


Written by
William Nicholson

Alain Boublil, Claude- Michel Sch�nberg

and Herbert Kretzmer
Adapted from the Stage Musical

"Les Mis�rables"
Based on the novel by

Victor Hugo
May 20, 2012




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The year is 1815.
The French revolution is a distant

memory. Napoleon has been defeated.

France is ruled by a King again.
A1   EXT. TOULON PORT - DAY                                     A1



RISE UP out of the iron-grey surface of the ocean, seething

in the wind, towards the shore. Winter rain slices the air.

Ahead, the port of Toulon, home of the French navy. A forest

of tall masted warships.
The great ships heave at anchor, the wind whipping their

rigging.
Through the sea spray we see the great ribs of warships

under construction, and warships being refitted.
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