Look in the mirror
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Looking in the mirror / The fear in the mirror |
| Original title | Le regard dans le miroir |
| Country of production | France , Belgium |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 4 × 55‒60 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean Chapot |
| script | Jean Chapot, Nelly Kaplan |
| production | TF1 |
| music | Betty Willemetz |
| camera | Michel Carré |
| occupation | |
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Blick in den Spiegel (also: Die Angst im Spiegel , original title: Le regard dans le miroir ) is a French four-part television series (thriller) from 1985 .
action
Dora Stern, an American photographer who lives in Paris, lost her memory many years ago in a traffic accident. Since then, she has been tormented by the same nightmare every night of watching an unknown woman murdered. In an antique shop she discovers a photo collage, the sight of which strikes her like lightning, because in it the eyes of a person can be seen who she recognizes but cannot assign. She buys the collage, breaks it apart and discovers the photograph of a young woman who looks exactly like herself and whose face shows the expression of extreme fear.
Dora wants to know who the woman is and begins to research. Her constant companion is the gallery owner Mathias, her patron and fatherly friend, who is also an intimate friend of her mother Éva Stern. Dora learns from Pawel, the artist who made the collage, that the photo was taken in a concentration camp during World War II and that it is of Pawel's friend, Elizabeth Kowacz. However, Pavel is murdered before he can report more. Elizabeth Kowacz survived the war, but was killed in Antibes by her lover, Carlo Calvino, in 1958 . Dora, who lost her memory on the same day and in the same place, does not believe in a coincidence. She travels to Antibes and finds out that she is not the daughter of Éva Stern, but of Elizabeth Kovacz, who turns out to be Éva's sister.
Before Dora can learn more from Éva, who is in Switzerland, Éva is shot. She had anticipated the threat and asked a friend, the policeman Eric, to protect Dora before she died. From now on, Eric accompanies Dora, and together they find Carlo Calvino, who went into hiding in Brazil under the name Vasco Pessoa. Calvino can prove, however, that it was not he who killed Elizabeth. Dora continues researching and in the end not only finds out the whole truth about her mother's death, but also that she was very close to the killer all along.
Production and broadcasts
Filming took place in Paris, Antibes and Étretat .
The film first aired in France on October 9, 1985. The German first broadcast took place from October 13th to 18th, 1987 by DDR1 . The film was shown again on N3 (February 25, 1989), H3 (April 20, 1989), S3 (February 23, 1990), West 3 (April 12, 1990) and DFF2 (July 23 to August 2, 1990) . The four episodes of the German version were titled Shadows from Yesterday (Original: Le fantôme d'Elisabeth ), The Other Woman ( Dora et son double ), The Second Identity ( Je est un autre ) and Time of the Murderers ( Le temps des assassins ).
In the first episode of the French crime series Maigret (1991-2005) Bruno Cremer and Aurore Clément could be seen together again in 1992.
consequences
Due to a legal dispute, the film has not been shown again to this day, nor has it been produced as a video cassette or DVD.
In 2002 Nelly Kaplan published a novel Ils furent une étrange comète , the female main character of which is also called Dora. The character of Dora Stern appears again in Nelly Kaplan's 2008 novel Et Pandore en avait deux!
Web links
- Look in the mirror in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ tv wish list. Retrieved March 28, 2014 .
- ↑ Achim Klünder (Ed.): Lexikon der Fernsehspiele / Encyclopedia of Television Plays in German Speaking Europe . 1978/87, Volume I. Saur, Munich a. a. 1991, ISBN 3-598-10836-2 , pp. 29 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Et Pandore en avait deux! Retrieved November 4, 2019 .