Commissioner Bellamy
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Commissioner Bellamy |
| Original title | Bellamy |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claude Chabrol |
| script |
Odile Barski Claude Chabrol |
| production | Patrick Godeau |
| music | Matthieu Chabrol |
| camera | Eduardo Serra |
| cut | Monique Fardoulis |
| occupation | |
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Commissioner Bellamy , alternative title Commissioner Bellamy - Murder as a Souvenir , is a French crime film by Claude Chabrol from 2009. It was the last feature film that Chabrol made.
action
Commissioner Paul Bellamy is on holiday in Nîmes with his wife Françoise . However, he does not come to rest. A man has been sneaking around the house for a few days and finally comes into contact with Bellamy. He introduces himself to him as Noël Gentil, but has false papers with him. The man admits that he killed a man indirectly and that he is now in hiding. He has a wife and a lover, the podiatrist Nadia, with whom he wants to go abroad. In order not to leave his wife penniless, he staged his own death. In his car, which fell off a cliff and burned out, however, it was not him who was sitting, but the other man who was killed for him. Gentil shows Bellamy the photo of the deceased, and on Françoise's advice, the commissioner also realizes that this man looks very much like Gentil himself.
Bellamy seeks out Gentil's wife, who reveals Gentil's real name: his name is Emile Leullet, has always been generous towards her, but neither has had a love life. Instead, Leullet had a lover whom he had met while dancing. Ms. Leullet gives Bellamy a film of a dance show at which her husband can be seen. Bellamy now realizes that Leullet or Gentil and the allegedly murdered man in the photo are identical. He seeks out Nadia, who admits that she was involved in the matter. Leullet wanted to fake his death and was looking for a man who looked as similar as possible to him. He found him in the homeless Denis Leprince. However, she was not present for the actual act, as she got out early during the last drive.
Bellamy now asks Leullet, who says that Leprince wanted to die. He was briefly gone at a gas station. On his return Leprince disappeared with the car and probably committed suicide. Leprince's longing for death is confirmed by hardware store clerk Claire Bonheur, who lived with Leprince for several years before he slipped socially. The path that Leprince initially drove with Leullet can also be explained logically. They drove to Sète , where Leprince wanted to visit the grave of his idol Georges Brassens .
Things come thick and fast: Leullet's wife dies of an aneurysm , Nadia has a relationship with the investigating commissioner and Leullet disappears without a trace, but shortly afterwards she turns himself in to the police and is arrested. Bellamy organizes for him a lawyer who is friends with Claire and who can obtain Leullet's release in court, among other things with the singing of Brassens chansons. Bellamy is then unsure whether he acted correctly, as Leullet and Nadia seem to triumph in acquittal.
Bellamy has other problems privately: During the fall, his younger half-brother Jacques moves into the holiday home and shows once again why he is the black sheep of the family. He drinks, steals and misbehaves in front of other guests. The situation between Bellamy and Jacques escalates again and again until he finally steals Bellamy's pistol and car and drives away. Jacques had an accident when his car crashed down a cliff - much like Leprine's death.
production
Commissioner Bellamy is based on a true case: Yves Dandonneau faked his own death in 1987 in order to collect life insurance. The film was shot in Nîmes and the surrounding area and Montpellier , among others . The opening scenes were taken at the grave of Georges Brassens in the cemetery de Py in Sète, and the judicial building in Nîmes and a motel in Caissargues , where scenes about Leullet were filmed, can also be seen. The costumes were created by Mic Cheminal , the film structures are by Françoise Benoît-Fresco .
Commissioner Bellamy had its premiere on February 8, 2009 as part of the Berlinale 2009 , where it was screened as part of the Berlinale Special series . It was released in French cinemas on February 25, 2009 and was seen by around 358,000 viewers. In Germany, the film opened in cinemas on July 9, 2009 and was released on DVD on December 3, 2009. Das Erste showed the film on German television for the first time on October 23, 2011.
It was the last feature film that Claude Chabrol made as a director. It was also the only collaboration between Chabrol and Gérard Depardieu.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Bellamy | Gérard Depardieu | Manfred Lehmann |
| Jacques Lebas | Clovis Cornillac | Olaf Reichmann |
| Noël Gentil / Emile Leullet / Denis Leprince | Jacques Gamblin | Bernd Vollbrecht |
| Françoise Bellamy | Marie Bunel | Christin Marquitan |
| Nadia Sancho | Vahina Giocante | Luise Helm |
| Madame Leullet | Marie Matheron | Martina Treger |
| Claire Bonheur | Adrienne Pauly | Sandra Schwittau |
criticism
The film service called Commissioner Bellamy a "calmly entertaining crime film" and a tribute to Georges Simenon's Commissioner Maigret . The film is an "elegant, wonderfully profound psychological hide-and-seek game by Claude Chabrol," said Der Spiegel .
For Cinema , the film was “a mild, but also quite tired, late work. The awkwardly constructed story and the artificial atmosphere leave no tension. ”The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung also criticized the“ the self-loving inconvenience [...] with which Chabrol moves through the familiar hells of his provincial bourgeoisie. ”
Web links
- Bellamy at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ François-Guillaume Lorrain: Quand Chabrol rencontre son "Bellamy" . lepoint.fr, February 19, 2009.
- ↑ See Bellamy on berlinale.de
- ↑ See allocine.fr
- ↑ Chabrol-Depardieu, la rencontre allocine.fr.
- ↑ Commissioner Bellamy. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Commissioner Bellamy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Cinema in brief: Commissioner Bellamy . In: Der Spiegel , No. 28, 2009, p. 126.
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ↑ Andreas Kilb: Close to the cinematic age limit . faz.net, July 6, 2009.