Belphégor

This article explains the feature film. For the truck model, see Citroën Belphégor ; on the television series, see Belphégor or the secret of the Louvre .

Movie
German title	Belphégor
Original title	Belphégor, le fantôme du Louvre
Country of production	France
original language	French
Publishing year	2001
length	93 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Jean-Paul Salomé
script	Jean-Paul Salomé , Danièle Thompson , Jérôme Tonnerre
production	Christine Gozlan , Alain Sarde
music	Bruno Coulais
camera	Jean-François Robin
cut	Sylvie Landra
occupation
Sophie Marceau : Lisa / Belphégor Michel Serrault : Verlac Frédéric Diefenthal : Martin Julie Christie : Glenda Spender Jean-François Balmer : Bertrand Faussier Patachou : Geneviève Lionel Abelanski : Simonnet Françoise Lépine : Suzanne Dupré François Levantal : Mangin Jacques Martial : Félix Philippe Maymat : Bob Pierre outside date : Pierre Desfontaines

Belphégor ( Belphégor, le fantôme du Louvre ) is a French horror film by Jean-Paul Salomé from the year 2001 . The screenplay is based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Bernède from 1927, which has already been filmed as a French television series.

action

An ancient Egyptian mummy is found in 1935 and given to the Louvre . Scientist Glenda Spender researched them 70 years later and discovered that the dead man's name was nowhere to be seen on the sarcophagus. As a result, his mind cannot find rest.

Lisa, who lives across from the Louvre, discovers a hole in the basement that was made during construction work. She sneaks into the museum through this hole at night. She is followed by the electrician Martin, whom she met shortly before during a power failure caused by this construction work under the Louvre. As the two walk through the museum together, they set off the alarm, whereupon both try to escape from the Louvre. On the way out, Lisa is struck by the ghost of the mummy.

From then on, Lisa haunted the museum as Belphégor at night, looking for the dead man's artifacts. After several deaths, the retired policeman Verlac is assigned to the case by the police chief of Paris and is investigating it. Verlac had already dealt with Belphégor once during his active service, but was unable to solve the case at the time.

Belphégor is caught on a night walk through the Louvre. Lisa comes to a military hospital like this. Through research, Martin, Verlac and the Egyptologist in the Louvre discover clues to Belphégor's identity. They find out that they have to hold an Egyptian death ritual to send the spirit of the mummy into the afterlife. After doing this, the spirit escapes from Lisa's body. Through the opened gate to the afterlife, even more ghosts are freed from mummies in the Louvre, which at the end of the film escape from the Louvre in the direction of the obelisk that stands in Paris.

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One of the Parisian filming locations: the Fontaine du Fellah fountain

The film was shot in Paris . Its production costs were estimated at 105 million French francs (≈ 16 million €). In France there were over two million cinema viewers.

According to allocine.fr, the name of the title character was derived from the biblical term Baal-peor . This combination of words means that the god Baal was worshiped by his people on Mount Péor (also Phégor). The realization of the special effects under the direction of Alain Carsoux and another 20 employees of the Duboi company took 4 months. For the first film adaptation of Belphégor (TV series from 1965), the filmmakers did not receive a filming permit for the Louvre . However, Jean-Paul Salome had asked for permission long before filming began and actually got it. Those in charge of the museum went even further. They offered the director a one-time overnight stay at the Louvre. In retrospect, Jean-Paul Salome describes this night as magical . Juliette Greco, the leading actress in the 1965 television series Belphégor , made a cameo in the film.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film “had little in common with the legendary television series of the 1960s in which Juliette Gréco played the leading role ” and that it disappointed despite the “ prominent cast ”. It was " an infusion, for the purpose of which the phantom of the opera had to move to the museum ".

Web links

• Belphégor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Belphégor in the Lexicon of International Films
• Belphégor at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
• Belphégor in the German dubbing index

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1. ^ Filming locations for Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre, accessed July 4, 2007
2. ↑ Box office / business for Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre, accessed July 4, 2007
3. ↑ http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-27435/secrets-tournage/
4. ↑ Belphégor. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .