Commissioner Dupin: Breton conditions

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Episode of the series Commissioner Dupin
Original title Breton conditions
Country of production Germany
original language German
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Episode 1
First broadcast April 24, 2014 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Matthias Tiefenbacher
script Gernot Gricksch ,
Martin Ess , based
on the bestseller by Jean-Luc Bannalec
production Iris Kiefer ,
Mathias Lösel
music Biber Gullatz ,
Andreas Schäfer
camera Klaus Merkel
cut Horst Reiter
occupation

Commissioner Dupin - Breton Conditions is a German feature film from 2014 . The crime film is based on the novel Breton Conditions - A Case for Inspector Dupin by Jean-Luc Bannalec . It is the first part of five volumes in the crime series Kommissar Dupin , which have already been filmed for television. The film premiered on April 16, 2014 in Munich . On April 24, 2014 the film was broadcast on television ( ARD ).

action

The film essentially sticks to the plot of the novel. Commissioner Dupin was transferred from Paris to Brittany . He is not very happy about that, since he detests nothing more than fish and other sea creatures. There is a murder. In the neighboring town of Pont Aven , the widowed 91-year-old art lover Pierre-Louis Pennec is stabbed to death in his own hotel, the legendary Hotel Central. This hotel was once home to Gauguin and other great artists. The hotel is run by Francine Lajoux, Pennec's partner, who discovered the deceased. In the beginning everyone is suspect, including his weak son and heir Loïc, who preferred beekeeping instead of taking over the hotel business, his half-brother André, an influential, bossy politician, Loïc's wife, dominant and not very talkative, and the hotel chef, who behaves very strangely. When Dupin visits the Pennec doctor, he learns that he was terminally ill. Heart surgery should have been performed immediately. Pennec refused.

On the first night after the murder, the window pane at the crime scene, the hotel bar, is smashed without any further traces being found. Dupin suspects that there is a previously undiscovered original among the copies hanging in the hotel bar and consults art expert Morgane Cassel. One painting particularly attracts this attention. It is similar to the painting “The Vision After the Sermon” by Paul Gauguin and also bears its features. Morgane wonders whether the picture could be a previously undiscovered second version of the picture that Gauguin created. Since the picture does not seem old enough to have been painted by Gauguin, it can at best be a copy. The art historian estimates the value for the real picture at 30 to 40 million euros.

After Commissioner Dupin and Morgane found the hidden signature FSPB in the unknown Gauguin painting, Commissioner Dupin drives straight to Frédéric's art museum and confronts him. At FSPB, Commissioner Dupin thought directly of Frédéric Simon Pascal Beauvois. He immediately admits that he was responsible for breaking into the hotel bar and sharing the pictures. It shows Commissioner Dupin and Morgane a painting with the same motif as in the unknown Gauguin painting in the hotel bar. However, by destroying the painting, he very quickly makes it clear that this picture is also a copy. The mistake of having exchanged his copy for a copy by the painter Gilbert Sonnheim instead of the original was only noticed much too late. Beauvois is arrested.

The next day, Loïc Pennec is found at the foot of a cliff on the beach.

Since Inspector Dupin sees a murder motif in the picture, he concentrates his further investigations even more on the original painting and, with the exception of Loïc Pennec, who has since died, asks all of the main suspects again about the picture. Although none of the people mentioned the image and its value to him in the first questioning, it turns out that everyone knew about it. Pennec's grandmother Marie-Jeanne Pennec received the picture over 100 years ago as a thank you for the hospitality from Gauguin, who was a guest at the Hotel Central at the time.

Inspector Dupin and Morgane go to look for the original picture. He remembers that there was a kind of shed on two of Pierre-Louis' properties. You search both sheds and in one of the sheds you find the original image you are looking for.

Dupin summons all suspects to Catherine Pennec's villa and confronts them with the truth. On the night of the murder, Loïc learned of his father's plan to donate the painting to a museum in Paris. There is an argument between the two of them. Loïc goes crazy and stabs his father in the affect. Because he doesn't know what to do, he calls his wife Catherine. She tells him what to do. Loïc exchanges the painting for the copy that his father has kept in another room in the hotel for years. Then Catherine calls André. She gives him the painting and tells him to hide the painting temporarily and sell it as soon as possible. Andre cannot defend himself against it, because he has been blackmailed by the family for years. 15 years ago he drove the hotel cook to a cripple while he was drunk. If that became known, his career as a politician would be over. So André joins in. Loïc gets a guilty conscience over time and wants to confess. Catherine kills him with a flashlight and throws him down the cliffs.

Production background

Emergence

“Breton conditions” is a production by filmpool fiction GmbH (producers: Iris Kiefer, Mathias Lösel) on behalf of ARD Degeto for Das Erste. Matthias Tiefenbacher was hired as a director . Gernot Gricksch and Martin Ess wrote the script . The editing was done by Katja Kirchen ( ARD Degeto ).

Filming

The shooting took place on the original locations in Brittany.

reception

Rainer Tittelbach said that the film was not very ambitious, but told in a relaxed and old-fashioned way in a friendly way. Oddsmeter.de judged: "A German production does it in French - and shows solid crime fiction despite a few noticeable defects".

Sequels

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Das Erste: "Inspector Dupin - Breton Conditions" with Pasquale Aleardi in the title role Start of a new series on Thursday, April 24th at 8:15 pm in the first .
  2. ↑ Commissioner Dupin ?? Breton conditions ?? Review of the film at Tittelbach.tv .
  3. ^ The Critics: "Commissioner Dupin - Breton Conditions" . April 23, 2014.