Fantômas (four parts)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Fantomas |
| Original title | Fantômas |
| Country of production | France , Germany |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 360 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Claude Chabrol Juan Luis Buñuel |
| script | Bernard Revon |
| production | Claude Barma |
| music | Georges Delerue |
| camera |
Jean Rabier Claude Robin |
| occupation | |
Fantômas is a mini-series in four parts from 1980 based on the novels about the criminal Fantômas by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain . It was directed by Claude Chabrol and Juan Luis Buñuel .
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The plot of Inspector Juve's hunt for the gentleman criminal Fantômas extends over four episodes.
In the presence of the young Charles and the police inspector Juve, a wealthy marquise brags about her lottery win, which she wants to redeem. Meanwhile, a dark figure creeps around their property. Juve warns the marquise about the criminal Fantômas. On the train ride to Paris, the marquise is strangled in her compartment by the man in black. The criminal collects the lottery prize in the clothes of the dead. The murderer Fantômas charms the young Countess Sonia Danidoff, but when he tries to take a precious ring from her and therefore cut off her finger, she calls for help. Fantômas flees and swears vengeance. He returns to the arms of his faithful lover, Lady Maud Beltham. In order to be happy with her, he kills her husband, Lord Beltham. Inspector Juve and his companion Charles, who now calls himself "Fandor" and works as a journalist, find the dead lord in a large suitcase. Juve's suspicions fall on the lovers Fantômas and Maud Beltham.
Juve can arrest Fantômas on a date with Maud. At the trial, a famous actor realizes his striking resemblance to the condemned Fantômas. Lady Belthman invites the actor to her home. After bribing prison guard Nibet so that he could sleep with Fantômas one last time before he was executed, the guard takes the death row inmate to a room across from the prison. Here Lady Beltham stuns the actor and puts Fantômas' clothes on him. When the actor protested in front of the guillotine the next morning that he was not Fantômas, nobody believed him. Only when Juve touches the severed head and notices the stage make-up does he know that an innocent man had to die.
The escaped Fantômas is now committing crimes that are planned by the gangster Lupart. Lupart's lover Joséphine serves as bait for Juve. But when she falls in love with the boxer Dixon and wants to leave Lupart, she has to die. She flees from a murderer on the windowsill and falls to her death at Juve's shout. The beautiful Sonia Danidoff suffers a similar fate: Fantômas cuts off her precious earrings, grins, strangles the crying luxury girl and then laughs her half-naked body as well.
A dead young woman with a burned face is found in a count's house, who is identified as Lady Beltham because of a suicide note. The young Jacques Dollon is arrested as her murderer. But when Juve tries to visit him in prison, Dollon has disappeared. Once again, the prison guard Nibet was involved. Dollon's sister Elisabeth protests her brother's innocence. This calls Fantômas on the scene, who anesthetizes Elisabeth and infuses her with carbon monoxide with a hose connected to the gas stove. Fandor is able to resuscitate her as the gas bill was not paid and thus the fatal dose was insufficient. Then they find Dollon's body. Meanwhile, Fantômas kills the witness Elisabeth - now with success - not least because Fandor fell in love with the girl. Meanwhile, in a monastery, Fandor discovers a nun who is confusingly similar to Lady Beltham. When the monastery is stormed, Fantômas and the lady are up and away.
The young King Friedrich Christian II has a secret romance with the pretty Romy. But when Romy is brutally murdered a little later, suspicion falls on the young blue-blooded. He protests his innocence to Juve, who knows: Fantômas was once again murderous; Romy is the seventh young woman the lady killer has on her conscience. When he faces Fantômas again, Juve is knocked out. The police, who arrive later, take off the mask of the exhausted man lying in a corner and take Juve for Fantômas. Thanks to the intervention of the young king, Juve is released and wants to visit Romy's friend Marieke. However, Marieke is accompanied to Juve's hotel room by her landlady, “Mother Kirsch”. When Juve is sent to his hotel by Mrs. Kirsch, he comes too late: Marieke was executed by a perfidious self- shot range. Now he is again mistaken for a murderer and taken prisoner. Mother Kirsch, he now knows, was once again Fantômas. But his loyal fandor promises to capture Fantômas. Meanwhile, he drives off with Lady Maud Beltham laughing and looking forward to new crimes.
Episodes
| No. | episode | Original title | Send date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fateful rendezvous | L'échafaud magique | May 3, 1980 |
| 2 | Deadly hug | L'étreinte du diable | May 17, 1980 |
| 3 | Hiding places in the sewer system | Le mort qui do | May 31, 1980 |
| 4th | Fandor suspected of murder | Le tramway fantôme | June 14, 1980 |
Reviews
Kino.de assessed: "In contrast to the famous 'Fantomas' films with Jean Marais as the criminal and Louis de Funes as the investigator, which were peppered with a lot of humor, this four-part series focused on action, suspense and horror."
Cast and dubbing
Web links
- Fantômas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Audience reviews at wunschliste.de
- Fantomas at fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Film review at Kino.de accessed 2018.
- ↑ Fantômas (four parts). In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on May 23, 2019 .