The Lerouge affair

Movie
Original title	The Lerouge affair
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1976
length	180 minutes
Rod
Director	Wilhelm Semmelroth
script	Herbert Asmodi
production	Gunther Witte
music	Hans Jonsson
camera	Hans Braun , Bernd Mueller
cut	Wolfgang Richter
occupation
René Deltgen : Tabaret Günter Strack : examining magistrate Daburon Peter Pasetti : Count of Commarin Volkert Kraeft : Albert von Commarin Kate Haack : Marquise d'Arlange Herlinde Latzko : Claire d'Arlange Joachim Ansorge : Noël Gerdy Jutta Kammann : Juliette Chaffour Willy Semmelrogge : Lebrun Helmut Brasch : Lerouge Tana Schanzara : Housekeeper Tabarets Milly Scott : Juliette Chaffour's maid

The film adaptation of the Lerouge affair as a WDR production was broadcast in two parts by ARD in August 1976 . It was a continuation of the successful collaboration between director Wilhelm Semmelroth, screenwriter Herbert Asmodi and composer Hans Jönsson, who had begun to adapt early crime fiction classics for television in the early 1970s. Worth seeing, especially because of the top-class cast, Käte Haack and Peter Pasetti shine. Scenes in which Juliette Chaffour's maid appears: Milly Scott with exaggerated makeup and an extremely strange way of speaking are curious. The end did not succeed. In contrast to the rest of the production, Noël Gerdy's attempt to escape with a final lintel looks like something out of an amateur film. All indoor shots were shot directly using video technology , the outdoor shots using conventional film technology. In 2011 the film was re-released on DVD.

action

In 1862 the widow Lerouge was found murdered in the village of La Jonchère near Paris. Tabaret, a retired detective, is present at the first investigation and points out that it is not an ordinary robbery. The lead investigating magistrate, Daburon, asked Tabaret to work on the case. Tabaret is also the paternal friend of the lawyer Noël Gerdy, who shortly thereafter reveals to him that he is the victim of a child swap in which the widow Lerouge was involved as his wet nurse. Gerdy presents Tabaret with letters indicating that he is the son of the Count of Commarin. Daburon suspects Albert von Commarin, who has previously assumed the position of the count's son, to be the perpetrator. He had a motive for the murder of the widow Lerouge in order to destroy documents that would reveal his illegitimate birth. Albert von Commarin is arrested because he doesn't have an alibi. He also got caught up in contradictions during his interrogations. Only through further investigations and the testimony of the Lerouge's husband, who was considered dead, does it become apparent that the newborns were never exchanged. Tabaret exposes Noël Gerdy as the perpetrator.

Web links

• The affair Lerouge in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Documentation on crime series

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Lerouge affair, plot content on krimiserien.heimat.eu, accessed on March 4, 2015.