Fred Vargas - flee far and fast

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Movie
German title Fred Vargas - Flee far and fast,
seeds of death
Original title Pars vite et reviens tard
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2007
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Regis Wargnier
script Ariane Fert ,
Harriet Marin ,
Julien Rappeneau ,
Lawrence Shore ,
Régis Wargnier
production Cyril Colbeau-Justin ,
Jean-Baptiste Dupont
music Patrick Doyle
camera Laurent Dailland
cut Yann Malcor
occupation

Place Igor-Stravinsky in Paris. This is where the ominous verses are read.

Fred Vargas - Flee far and fast , also seeds of death , (Original title: Pars vite et reviens tard ) is a French thriller by the director Régis Wargnier from 2007. It is based on the 2001 crime novel of the same name by Fred Vargas . Ariane Fert, Harriet Marin, Julien Rappeneau and Lawrence Shore wrote the script, which was written with the assistance of the author and director.

action

The action takes place in what is now Paris . A mysterious stranger predicts the outbreak of the plague . Several citizens complain because a mirror-inverted 4, visible from afar, was painted on their door. Commissioner Adamsberg worked on the cases and made the acquaintance of the retired historian Hervé Decambrais, who helped to interpret the symbol.

The prophecy seems to come true . The first body with black marks on its skin is soon found. The plague is also called "The Black Death". The young man lived behind an apartment door without the horror symbol. It quickly becomes clear why. The mirror-inverted 4 was used in the Middle Ages to protect against the deadly infectious disease. At the same time, a public reader regularly receives mysterious messages which Hervé interprets as announcements of a plague epidemic. The sign on the doors is always provided with CLT , an archaeologist interviewed by Adamsberg recognizes this abbreviation and identifies it as cito longe tarde , in German “flee quickly and far and don't return too soon”.

Adamsberg's colleague is bitten by fleas found in an envelope in the dead man's apartment. While the laboratory analysis of these parasites is in progress - cultivation takes six days - more and more victims are found. But then the laboratory doctor can refute the suspicion of plague. Curare , an arrow poison, paralyzed the diaphragm and lungs of the victims in a matter of seconds. All corpses had a puncture site in the neck.

The police investigations are now so advanced that a biographical connection between the victims - so far there are five - could be found. They all worked for a pharmaceutical company in the Congo at the same time. The list of employees includes another French. Roubaud, the last survivor, tells the investigating police officers how he and his colleagues at the time killed the head of the pharmaceutical company because he discovered their sprawling drug deals in the Congo.

François Heller-Devile left a son. This - now grown up to a young man - is suspected of avenging the death of his father together with his grandmother Clémentine. As a 12-year-old, Damas watched the murder disguised as an accident. According to her psychotic belief, Clémentine breeds rats in her basement that are infected with the plague . She is obsessed with the subject of "plague". She had sent the rodent fleas in envelopes to the six murderers of her son. Damas, who has also had psychological problems since his father's death, marked the doors of those who were not to be attacked by the pathogen at night, i.e. the neighbors of the later victims. In fact, the two of them by no means spread the plague.

Damas' half-sister Marie is the real murderer. She knew Damas' desire for revenge and injected the victims with the poison. She used charcoal to draw black spots on the victims' skin to simulate plague as the cause of death. Bitter about her fate - unloved and rejected by her father - she sought after her father's fortune, which now belongs to Damas. Clémentine is admitted to psychiatry, Damas receives a 5-year prison sentence.

background

The Gaumont company had the film shot in Paris in 2006 and spent € 15 million on its production. The revenue was $ 6 million, according to JP's box office.

The German alternative title is Saat des Todes .

In preparation, the director Régis Wargnier carried out extensive research on the subject of epidemics and specifically on the plague. To this end, he held talks with a plague specialist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. The statement by the microbiologist that he could infect all of mankind with the pathogen material present in the institute impressed Wargnier so much that he incorporated the scene (retrospectively) into the script.

Vargas didn't care about working on the film. However, she got the opportunity to read the finished script.

Web links

Commons : Film locations of Have Mercy on Us All (2007)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ krimi-couch.de
  2. ↑ cf. IMDb
  3. ↑ allocine.fr
  4. ↑ JP's box office
  5. ↑ Fred Vargas - Flee Far and Fast in the online film database
  6. ↑ Fred Vargas - Flee far and fast. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 31, 2014 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  7. ↑ Quand la réalité DEPASSE la fiction . allocine.fr
  8. ↑ Un auteur absent . allocine.fr