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Lost Illusions

FR

7.392

2021

2 hr 29 min

OVERVIEW :- Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.

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