Belphégor or the secret of the Louvre

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Television series
German title Belphégor or the secret of the Louvre
Original title Belphégor ou le Fantôme du Louvre
Country of production France
original language French
year 1965
length 25 minutes
Episodes 4 (orig.) / 13 (German synchro)
occupation
synchronization

Belphégor or the Secret of the Louvre is a four-part French television series from 1965. In Germany, the production as a 13-part series of 25 minutes each ran for the first time in 1967 in the regional evening program of ARD . In both France and Germany, the television series was a street sweeper . One of the avid supporters of the television series was the then French President Charles de Gaulle . Directed by Claude Barma .

action

Lady Hodwin's house

At night, the guard Gautrais sees a phantom in the halls of the ancient Egyptian Louvre . He shoots the phantom with no effect. The phantom appeared at the statue of the god Belphégor .

The guard is questioned the next day by his superiors, who consider the story to be implausible, since Gautrais, who is nicknamed Gluck-Gluck, is known as an alcoholic . Nevertheless, the guards stepped up the guarding of the museum the following night. During the night, the head guard Sabourel is found dead by Gautrais.

The young student André Bellegarde, spurred on by the stories of an old man he met at the flea market, locks himself up at night in the Louvre to track down the phantom . He meets a young girl, Colette, the daughter of the Commissioner Ménardier, who is investigating this matter. As it turns out later, the old man from the flea market dies at the same hour as the head caretaker Sabourel.

Juliette Gréco played Belphégor

At night Bellegarde sees a child at the statue of Belphégor. During this observation he is ambushed by the phantom. The guards and police officers lying in wait come to his aid, but the phantom disappears, apparently guided by the child. André Bellegarde, who gained a certain prominence through the incident, was approached the next day by a mysterious woman, Laurence Borel, and later seduced.

Commissioner Ménardier is invited to the large and mysterious Vésinet house, which is inhabited by an old woman, a former singer, Lady Hodwin. This tries in vain to convince the commissioner that he should give up his investigation into the Belphégor case. She also alludes to possible threats to his daughter. Shortly afterwards, when Bellegarde and Colette went to the cinema together, the young girl was attacked without being able to remember the attacker.

The commissioner then wants to bring Lady Hodwin to justice, but has to release her again due to a lack of evidence and the intervention of the British embassy. The commissioner investigates again at night in the Louvre. He also sees the phantom, now also called Belphégor. In the pursuit, the child accompanying the phantom throws a net over the detective, allowing the phantom to escape.

The Château de Médan , the residence of Boris Williams

Bellegarde is threatened at a tennis club by a former lover of Laurence Borel. This warns him about Laurence and alludes to another man to whom she allegedly fell for. Laurence invites André to a glamorous dinner to introduce him to a mysterious and wealthy person named Williams.

Colette is kidnapped and taken to the Eiffel Tower , where attempts are made to throw her down to increase the pressure on the inspector. The police appear at the last second.

By chance, the guard Gautrais discovers that the floor of a sarcophagus near the Belphégor statue has an elevator. He descends with Bellegarde. Below you will discover part of the old Louvre. You see Williams sending Belphégor and the child to the Louvre to tell a secret. Then they see how the phantom Belphégor tampered with the statue Belphégor and lights up the statue. The phantom escapes again after its discovery. Bellegarde suspects that the statue is the metal of Parakleios (in the original: Paracelsus).

Bellegarde then descends into the basement alone to do further research. He arranged to meet Gautrais in a café for three days later. Since Bellegarde does not show up and send no message, Gautrais decides to use the elevator in the sarcophagus to go back down to the old Louvre himself. He discovers that the basement floors have been flooded. Shortly afterwards, Bellegarde appears in the cafe that has been arranged, but refuses further explanations.

Bellegarde is questioned by the police about his research, but does not provide any information. The inspector then has him monitored.

Williams meets with Lady Hodwin, who is trying to protect Bellegarde. It is learned that Lady Hodwin is Williams' mother, but that she has denied him in order to protect him. Williams strangles Lady Hodwin after an argument.

The detective goes to the provinces to see Laurence's parents to interrogate them. We also learn that Laurence had a twin sister who died. He suspects that Laurence is the key to the phantom's secret. The father collects writings on occultism . He hands the commissioner an old document about the Rosicrucians . It is about the discovery of the metal of Paraclete. On the way back to Paris, he barely escapes death in a traffic accident.

Bellegarde is saved from drowning after attempting suicide in the Seine. Laurence explains to him that Williams has solved the Rosicrucian mystery and is trying to get hold of him.

In Laurence's house, Bellegarde meets Laurence's supposedly dead twin sister. She admits that she got away with her life in an explosion, but had herself declared dead. During the night, Bellegarde and Laurence see the child Belphégor always accompanies. In fact, Laurence is attacked by Belphégor shortly afterwards. Bellegarde takes up the chase, but is misled and eventually overwhelmed by helpers. He wakes up in a marshalling yard , where he is tied to the buffer of a railroad car. It is only through luck that he escapes the fate of being squeezed to death by shunting wagons. Meanwhile, Laurence is arrested because they found Belphégor's disguise on her. Nor can she remember the attack of the phantom. Bellegarde resumes his research.

Williams confirms his love for Laurence. But she really wants to see Belphégor and threatens to disappear otherwise. She also explains that Bellegarde showed her true love. Belphégor then appears to her too. When she unmasked the phantom, her sister stands in front of her. She says that Williams instructed her to scare her. Bellegarde discovers Williams' hiding place, but Williams escapes. The commissioner receives a telegram asking him to come to the Louvre. The guards Gautrais and Bellegarde also received a telegram with the same content. There they meet Belphégor. The phantom, behind which Laurence's twin sister is again, is shot.

Meanwhile, Williams tries to break away with Laurence. He tells her that she is Belphégor and that she killed the guard Sabourel. Then she climbs onto the steel structure of a factory. The police arrive. Williams tries to convince her to commit suicide while Bellegarde tries to get her to descend. Finally she jumps into the depths.

Finally, Bellegarde and Colette inherit the gramophones from Lady Hodwin. However, they hand them over to a junk dealer so that they are no longer connected to the case.

Other actors

German TV version

Episodes

  1. The Phantom of the Louvre
  2. The Louvre
  3. Belphégor strikes
  4. Ménardier in a bind
  5. The ambush
  6. The riddle of the Louvre
  7. The widow from four in the morning
  8. Help for the drowned
  9. Bellegarde gets angry
  10. The man with the dog
  11. The black light
  12. Be there at midnight
  13. The veil is lifted

synchronization

The German synchronization :

actor Dubbing voice role episode
René Dary Walter Reichelt Commissaire Ménardier
Yves Rénier Fritz Wepper André Bellegarde
Christine Delaroche Marion Hartmann Colette Ménardier
François Chaumette Harald Leipnitz Boris Williams
Georges Staquet Ludwig Sagittarius Detective Assistant Folco
Sylvie Erna Grossmann Lady Hodwin
Juliette Gréco Hanne again Laurence Hiquet
Paul Crauchet Erwin Scherschel Guard Gautrais
Maurice Gautier August Riehl banker 9
Nicolas Vogel John Pauls-Harding Bernard Charel 4 & 5
Jean-Pierre Zola Werner hemp yarn Cache red 7 & 8
Jacques Dynam Rolf Castell Coudreau 10 & 13
René Alone Anton Reimer Director Doublet 1
Jean-Jacques Steen Willy Friedrichs Dumont 9
Palau Harry Hardt Graindorge 1
Marcelle Ranson Carola Höhn Marie Hiquet 7 & 9
Paul Cambo Richard Naegele Parusseau 1, 3–5 & 7
Pierre Réal Willy Friedrichs Ravon 2
Christian Lude Willy Friedrichs Robert Hiquet 7th
Sylvain Levignac Willy Friedrichs Roux 10
Juliette Gréco Ingeborg Grunewald Stephanie Hiquet 11-13

DVD release

The series was published in 2007 as a DVD box with an FSK age rating of 12 years and over, a total running time of 317 minutes, with a division of the German broadcast (13 episodes) in German and French (the latter with German subtitles) and in black and white.

Trivia

The place and time of the action are indicated in the first text of the opening credits with “Paris 1965”, ie the year of the French first broadcast. In the German dubbing, in the sequence in which Colette freed André from the violence of his kidnappers, a news program can be heard on the radio in which, among other things, the collision of the US aircraft carrier Essex with the first nuclear submarine Nautilus is reported. However, this did not take place until November 10, 1966.

literature

  • Georg Seeßlen : Belphégor or the secret of the Louvre . In: Classics of the TV series. Reclam, Stuttgart 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Belphégor or The Secret of the Louvre (1965) in German synchronous files