This year's much-awaited film, "Les Miserables", was premiered in New York on Monday. Apart from the film's cast, many other celebrities showed up on the red carpet at the premiere.

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"Les Miserables" is a British drama based on the musical with the same title by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Herbert Kretzmer, which in turn was an adaptation of 1862 French novel by Victor Hugo.

The cast of "Les Miserables" has been travelling around the world of late, promoting the film ahead of its release this Christmas. It was earlier premiered in London on Dec 5.

The film has Hugh Jackman as an ex-prisoner, Russell Crowe as the cop and Anne Hathaway as a mother of an illegitimate child, who is forced into prostitution. The 30-year-old actress, who tied the knot with actor Adam Shulman in September, had to starve and cut her beautiful locks to look like a malnourished prostitute.

"I never thought about what I was doing as a sacrifice, because there are people that really do it. And even though I was technically really losing weight and I really cut off all my hair, it was for the sake of art - it was play-acting. So I never got too impressed with myself about it," Anne Hathaway told The Sun.

Directed by Tom Hooper, "Les Miserables" will be released in the US on Christmas day (Dec 25) and in the UK on Jan 11.

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Actress Anne Hathaway arrives for the premiere of Les Miserables in New York

Actress Samantha Barks arrives for the premiere of Les Miserables in New York

Russell Crowe

Actress Amanda Seyfried arrives for the premiere of Les Miserables in New York

Actress Amanda Seyfried arrives for the premiere of Les Miserables in New York

Director Tom Hooper arrives for the premiere of Les Miserables in New York

Model Bailey arrives for the world premiere of "Les Miserables" in London

Television personality Donny Deutsch arrives for the premiere of Les Miserables in New York

Singer Gouding arrives for the world premiere of "Les Miserables" in London

Actor Zach Braff arrives for the premiere of Les Miserables in New York

Actor Anderson poses for photographers as she arrives for the world premiere of "Les Miserables" in London

Actor Sasha Baron Cohen arrives for the premiere of Les Miserables in New York

Actor Barks arrives for the world premiere of "Les Miserables" in London

Actor Hugh Jackman and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness arrive for the premiere of Les Miserables in New York

Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway – “Les Miserables”

Actress Bridget Moynahan arrives for the premiere of Les Miserables in New York

Actor Hathaway poses for photographers as she arrives for the world premiere of "Les Miserables" in London

Actor Seyfried poses for photographers as she arrives for the world premiere of "Les Miserables" in London

Actors Crowe, Hathaway, Jackman and Seyfried and director Hooper pose for photographers as they arrive for the world premiere of "Les Miserables" in London

Actor Hugh Jackman poses for a portrait while promoting his movie Les Miserables in New York

Actors Hathaway and Seyfried pose for photographers as they arrive for the world premiere of "Les Miserables" in London

Actors Seyfried, Hathaway, and Barks pose for photographers as they arrive for the world premiere of "Les Miserables" in London

Cast member Hathaway of U.S. gestures to British director Hooper at a photo session during a promotional event for the movie "Les Miserables" in Tokyo

Cast members Seyfried, Jackman and Hathaway wave to fans at a promotional event for the movie "Les Miserables" in Tokyo

Cast members Seyfried, Jackman and Hathaway pose at a promotional event for the movie "Les Miserables" in Tokyo