The judge and the murderer
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The judge and the murderer |
| Original title | Le juge et l'assassin |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 128 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bertrand Tavernier |
| script |
Jean Aurenche Bertrand Tavernier |
| production | Raymond Danon |
| music | Philippe Sarde |
| camera | Pierre-William Glenn |
| cut | Armand Psenny |
| occupation | |
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The Judge and the Murderer is a French crime film directed by Bertrand Tavernier in 1976. The film is based on events that actually happened.
action
France in 1893: Joseph Bouvier is discharged from the army as a sergeant due to mental problems. He is advised to rest. His heart is attached to the young Louise, who refuses to marry. He also follows her to church services against her will. He also tries to convince her mother that Louise will become his wife, but she leaves the decision to her daughter. If he can't have Louise, Bouvier even suggests marrying her 16-year-old sister in her place. But this is also rejected. When Louise returned all the letters to him at his request, he shoots them and then tried to fix himself. Both survive, with Bouvier retaining two bullets in his head as he refuses an operation. He is taken to an insane asylum in Dole , where he cannot be treated. Bouvier publicly railed against the rich and propagated anarchy . After a while he is fired because nobody feels responsible for him and nobody pays for him. But he is not allowed to go back to his previous job in a church and so he begins to roam the country.
Two years go by in which France is rocked by a series of murders of young women and men. Most of them were shepherds and were brutally murdered and sometimes raped by the perpetrator. Judge Émile Rousseau has been following the perpetrator for a long time and is waiting for him in his judicial district. He hopes that by arresting the murderer he will be able to rise in society. When murders occurred in his area, he had witnesses indiscriminately arrested tramps who were found to be innocent. Bouvier is finally found and arrested in another attempted murder. He pleads not guilty and Rousseau keeps him in custody for three months in the hope of obtaining a confession from him. Rousseau uses a trick to get him to trace his hiking trail on a map over the past few years. Bouvier, who has gained confidence in Rousseau, followed in the footsteps of the murderer and is now being accused of the murders by the judge. In fact, Bouvier wrote to him in a letter that he had committed the deeds, but the lines are too vague to pass as a confession in court. Bouvier insists on a deal with Rousseau: He wants to see some of his confession letter with his portrait photo in three newspapers before he reveals the necessary details to the judge. Rousseau goes into this. After the newspapers label Bouvier a con man, he leads the judge and others to another corpse to prove his culprit.
As a result, Bouvier repeatedly portrays himself as a victim, saying that the doctors in the Dole asylum are guilty of having released him. In addition, he was bitten by a rabid dog in his youth, which is why he went crazy and committed the deeds in a delusional manner. However, Rousseau knows that his reputation depends on the conviction of Bouvier, especially since he wants to see the Bouvier trial as big as the Dreyfus trial . A doctor examines Bouvier and certifies that he is in good health. Rousseau forbids an examination by other doctors who want to review Bouvier's case and thus prevent further similar cases. His friend, the former lawyer Villedieu, expressed doubts about Bouvier's sanity, who was ultimately only condemned on the basis of his social position. Bouvier is ultimately sentenced to death as fully sane. Villedieu takes his own life. It was only after Bouvier's death that doubts about his sanity emerged, especially since his brain showed abnormalities. Rousseau is not honored, on the contrary, he falls from grace. Above all, the workers who stand up for socialism turn sharply against it. The credits state that Bouvier killed twelve children between 1893 and 1898, but that more than 2,500 children perished in the mines and silk factories in France during the same period.
production
The Judge and the Killer is based on the true story of serial killer Joseph Vacher . The film was shot mainly in the Ardèche department , including in Privas . The costumes were created by Jacqueline Moreau , the film construction came from Antoine Roman . After The Clockmaker of St. Paul and When the Festival Begins ... it was the third feature film that Bertrand Tavernier directed alone.
The film was released on March 10, 1976 in French cinemas and was shown for the first time on German television on April 15, 1977 on ZDF .
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Judge Rousseau | Philippe Noiret | Paul Edwin Roth |
| Sgt. Joseph Bouvier | Michel Galabru | Michael Chevalier |
| rose | Isabelle Huppert | Heidi Schaffrath |
| Villedieu | Jean-Claude Brialy | Claus Wilcke |
| Madame Rousseau | Renee Faure | Gisela Trowe |
| Louise | Cécile Vassort | Heidi Berndt |
criticism
For the film service , The Judge and the Murderer was a “mixture of crime film and psychodrama with excellent actors.” “Michel Galabru translates the madness that Bouvier drives into convincingly crazy expressions and movements,” said arte and showed himself by impressed by the "radiant landscape shots of the green hills of the Ardèches in southern France". For Cinema , the film was a "brilliantly played, bitterly angry moral study".
Awards
The Judge and the Murderer was awarded three Césars in 1977 in the categories of Best Actor (Michel Galabru), Best Screenplay (Jean Aurenche, Bertrand Tavernier) and Best Film Music (Philippe Sarde). He also received three other César nominations in the categories of Best Film (Bertrand Tavernier), Best Director (Bertrand Tavernier) and Best Supporting Actor (Jean-Claude Brialy).
Web links
- The Judge and the Assassin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The judge and the killer in the synchronous database
Individual evidence
- ↑ The judge and the murderer. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The judge and the murderer in the synchronous database
- ↑ The judge and the murderer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See The Judge and the Murderer on arte.tv ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ See cinema.de
