The Hatter's Fantoms (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | The Hatter's Fantoms |
| Original title | Les Fantômes du chapelier |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 122 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Claude Chabrol |
| script | Claude Chabrol Georges Simenon (novel) |
| production | Philippe Grumbach |
| music | Matthieu Chabrol |
| camera | Jean Rabier |
| cut | Monique Fardoulis |
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The Hatter's Fantome is a French feature film by Claude Chabrol , which premiered on May 26, 1982, in Germany on October 29 of the same year. The plot is based on the novel of the same name by Georges Simenon . The exterior shots were taken in Concarneau and Quimper (both in the Finistère department , Brittany ).
action
The hatter Léon Labbé murdered his wife who had bullied him for years. He places a dressmaker's dummy on the living room window, whose shadow serves to simulate passers-by on the street that his wife is still alive. Since the now dead woman would have her birthday soon after, her school friends want to come to the celebration. Labbé feels compelled to kill these women too, so that no further suspicion falls on him. After these murders, which seem to have been committed without motive, the police are groping in the dark. In the evening, Labbé meets up with friends to play cards as usual. The Armenian tailor Kachoudas, who knows the real murderer, is also part of the party.
One day Kachoudas falls ill and dies. Labbé is now rid of the confidant, so that his life could go back to the usual way. But the hatter can't stop killing, the next victim is his housekeeper. When he finally kills his childhood sweetheart, he makes a mistake and is caught.
Reviews
The lexicon of international film certifies that the film is a “mixture of thriller, psychopathological chamber play and black comedy”, which exposes the “constraints and repressions in the petty-bourgeois milieu as a breeding ground for crime”.
The television magazine TV Spielfilm calls the work a “successful film adaptation of a novel by Georges Simenon”. The director uses "the starting material for the investigation of small-town and petty-bourgeois constraints and behaviors, which he demonstrates and exposes with black humor." At the same time, the film is "the exciting psychological duel of two characters of different origins and different classes". The magazine also praised the two actors, namely "the great Michel Serrault and Charles Aznavour."
Awards
- MystFest 1982: Award for the best director, nomination for best film
- Fantasporto 1983: nomination for best film
synchronization
| role | actor | Dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|
| Léon Labbé | Michel Serrault | Peter Fitz |
| Kachoudas | Charles Aznavour | Harald Leipnitz |
| Madame Labbé | Monique Chaumette | Renate Danz |
| Jeantet | François Cluzet | Wolfgang number |
| Pigeac | Mario David | Joachim Kerzel |
literature
Georges Simenon : The Hatter's Fantome . Diogenes Verlag , Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-257-21001-9 (French: Les Fantômes du chapelier . Translated by Eugen Helmlé ).
Web links
- The Fantome Hatter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Hatter's Fantoms in the online film database