Fantomas (1964)

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Movie
German title Fantomas
Original title Fantômas
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Country of production France , Italy
original language French
Publishing year 1964
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director André Hunebelle
script Jean Halain ,
Pierre Foucaud
production Cyril Grize
music Michel Magne
camera Marcel Grignon
cut Jean Feyte
occupation
synchronization
chronology

Successor  →
Fantomas against Interpol

Fantomas is a Franco-Italian crime comedy by the director André Hunebelle from 1964. The film uses motifs from the novel of the same name by the French authors Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain . Because the film was very successful, Fantomas against Interpol followed in 1965 and Fantomas threatened the world in 1967 .

action

Czechoslovak poster for the film

Fantomas - that's the name of a clever and brutal criminal who has been worrying France for some time. Nobody knows what he looks like, as he uses realistic latex masks to create a different identity for each coup. Those affected and the police actually only conclude that they were dealing with Fantomas from the business cards he usually leaves behind. Inspector Juve , already a bundle of nerves, is coming under increasing pressure, especially since the press is on his neck. Journalist Fandor even claims that Fantomas is just a bogus invented by the police , on which all sorts of unsolved cases are passed. Supported by his pretty fiancée, the press photographer Hélène , Fandor published a fictional interview with Fantomas in which he caricatured him as a clichéd specter.

A fatal mistake! The criminal does not allow himself to be trifled with, and Fandor soon finds himself facing him involuntarily. The look that Fantomas has chosen for his actual identity is again just a mask, but far surpasses Fandor's imagination. It's really frightening - a bald head of an eerie gray-blue color with a rigid face in which only the eyes seem alive. The monster's voice and movements also seem strangely unnatural. His extensive underground domicile, which is luxurious and equipped with the latest technology, suggests that he has a dangerous intelligence and almost unlimited resources. If necessary, there are also some powerful henchmen at his side. Resistance turns out to be pointless. Fandor is given 48 hours to revise his derisive article, otherwise he faces death.

But first of all, Commissioner Juve also has a chicken to pluck with the journalist. Stopped by this, Fandor can no longer stop a new Fantomas satire by its editor-in-chief. Thereupon the gangster seizes him again. However, it is no longer enough for him to simply kill Fandor, he also wants to ruin his reputation. The ever-popular journalist is supposed to witness how he becomes a general hate figure. To this end, Fantomas, masked with Fandor's facial features, perpetrates a spectacular jewel theft. Fandor has to watch helplessly on TV that Commissioner Juve really falls for it and publicly announces that Fandor is Fantomas. Escape is out of the question, because Fantomas' empire is strictly supervised by his companion and accomplice, the mysterious Lady Beltham , even during his absence .

A little later, Fantomas played the same mask game with Inspector Juve, so that he was also suspected of a robbery, whereupon his previously submissive assistant, Inspector Bertrand, arrested him and rudely grinded him, not without pleasure. Fantomas also kidnapped Hélène, but when he indicated that he wanted to make her his new lover, Fandor saw his chance and managed to get Lady Beltham to overhear the conversation unnoticed. As he correctly calculated, the lady becomes jealous and sets Hélène and Fandor free. The escape car provided is actually supposed to take the two of them to hell, because its brakes don't work, but the all-rounder Fandor masters the insane run and only ends up in prison, where he shares the cell with inspector Juve of all people.

But even behind bars they are not safe from Fantomas. Dressed as a guard, he brings her back under his control. Fortunately, Inspector Bertrand, instructed by Hélène, finally understands the situation and sets the police in motion. In fact, Fantomas gets into trouble this time and has to turn to escape, which means that Fandor and Juve are released again. A turbulent chase develops on land, in the air and on water, until the criminal again shows off his technical superiority and escapes with his own submarine, while Juve and Fandor resignedly paddle in the sea and finally from Hélène into a tiny rubber dinghy be hoisted.

synchronization

The dialogue book was written by Ursula Buschow , Edgar Flatau directed the dialogue .

role actor German voice actor
Fantomas Jean Marais Klaus Miedel
Fandor Paul Klinger
Inspector Juve Louis de Funès Gerd Martienzen
Helene Mylène Demongeot Margot Leonard
Inspector Bertrand Jacques Dynam Gerd Duwner
Newspaper publisher Robert Dalban Eduard Wandrey

Reviews

"Fickle, fast-paced conversation in the second half, the aim of which is more cheerful entanglements than horror."

- Lexicon of international film

“The Lord of Secrets has turned into a kind of child fright . Long live the clothes. Funny, hair-raising lively staged, the cast is simply magnificent; a delicious, entertaining parody. Louis de Funès' breakthrough as France's first comedian. "

- Hahn / Jansen, p. 142

"Since the negative material in itself has been completely defused in this humorous version, the color stripe put into the picture with wit and technical skill is possible from the age of 16."

- Protestant film observer, review No. 93/1965

Premieres

The film premiered in France on November 4, 1964, in the USA on April 5, 1966 and in the Federal Republic of Germany on May 27, 1966. In the GDR , the film was first shown on television on December 23, 1973.

media

DVDs
  • Fantomas (Limited Edition, all three films, UFA DVDs with bonus material). The films are also available as single DVDs.
Blu-rays
  • Fantomas trilogy (all three films in German in a box in HD). The films are also available as a single Blu-ray.
Film music
  • Fantomas 70 (sampler CD with music from all three films), Universal France 013 476-2.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fantomas in the German dubbing index
  2. ↑ Fantomas. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 21, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Release Info.