Commissioner Maigret sets a trap
| Movie | |
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| German title | Commissioner Maigret sets a trap |
| Original title | Maigret tend un piège |
| Country of production | France , Italy |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 119 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Jean Delannoy |
| script | Jean Delannoy Michel Audiard R. M. Arlaud |
| music | Paul Misraki |
| camera | Louis Page |
| cut | Henri Taverna |
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Commissioner Maigret Traps is a Franco-Italian crime film from Intremondia from 1958 based on the novel Maigret Traps by Georges Simenon . The addition "Commissioner", which the film received when it was shown in theaters, was omitted from the DVD release. Jean Delannoy's directorial work was the prelude to a small series of films starring Jean Gabin in the title role of Commissioner Maigret .
action
A series of murders keeps Paris in suspense: Maigret tries to arrest a multiple female murderer with a staged arrest of a police involved (Mazet) in order to challenge the honor of the real murderer. Despite the increased police presence, an arrest of the real perpetrator fails by a hair.
Through intensive and meticulous investigative work, Maigret and his team come closer to the truth: The suspicion is concentrated on a family butcher business where the artist Maurin grew up, Maurin's wealthy, thoughtful wife Yvonne and his widowed mother. Thanks to various circumstantial evidence and interrogations, Maigret can almost unmask Maurin as a serial killer: Maurin, plagued by father and mother complexes, experienced an excessive motherly love as a mother’s son since childhood, not least because of his artistic talent, but committed female murders in order to symbolically defend himself as well as out of revenge against the butcher shop employee Mauricette, who had seduced his father. As a result, Maurin developed a hatred of women of this type, whom he referred to as "whores" and repeatedly forced to kill.
The story takes a surprising turn. While Maurin is under interrogation, another woman murder takes place, which could not possibly have been committed by Maurin and thus excludes him as a suspect. First of all, mother Maurin confesses to this, but then Yvonne testifies that she committed this one last murder - both women wanted to protect the sensitive son Maurin from arrest out of excessive motherly love, but in vain.
Maurin, who has meanwhile been released, almost manages to commit another murder on the butcher's employee, Mauricette, but the act is foiled at the last second and Maurin is finally convicted.
Differences to the novel
While Simenon's novel, Maigret sets a trap, is set in the Parisian district of Montmartre , the plot in the feature film has been relocated to the Place des Vosges in the Marais . Some of the names of the people involved have also been changed. From Moncin, Maurin, from Inspector Lognon, also known in the Maigret series as "Inspector curmudgeon", Inspector Lagrume. In contrast to the original book, in which, for once, he is not in a bad mood because his wife is currently on cure, he is the usual curmudgeon in the film. While the trigger for Maigret's trap, the psychiatrist Tissot, does not appear at all in the film, as does Simenon's general reflections on psychology and reviewers, Madame Maurin's affair with a gigolo gave the plot a further twist. Overall, Oliver Hahn found the “digressions” of the film on maigret.de “partly more plausible than the story in the book was”.
criticism
“Simenon's novel was implemented with psychological care and cinematic accuracy. The natural decorations are more than just picturesque accessories, they give the characters persuasiveness. A successful crime film with excellent dialogues and never-ending tension. "
“The slow-motion facial expressions, with which Gabin primarily illustrated the thought processes of wise and benevolent gangsters in the Parisian underworld in his last roles, is appropriate to the bourgeois sluggishness of the Simenon figure [...]. Small people Paris was photographed in an original and original way. "
Further films
- 1962: Maigret sets a trap (The trap) by Terence Williams . A television adaptation as part of a series with Rupert Davies as the commissioner.
- 1992: Maigret sets a trap by John Glenister . A television adaptation as part of a series with Michael Gambon as the commissioner.
- 1996: Maigret tend un piège by Juraj Herz . Another TV series episode, this time with Bruno Crémer in the lead role.
- 2004: La trappola by Renato De Maria . Italian television adaptation; Sergio Castellitto plays Maigret.
- 2016: Commissioner Maigret: The trap (Maigret sets a trap) . TV adaptation with Rowan Atkinson in the lead role, directed by Ashley Pearce.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Georg Lippert: The counter-image. To show the historical city in the feature film (pdf; 1.7 MB)
- ↑ Maigret sets a trap on maigret.de.
- ↑ Inspector Maigret sets a trap in the film dictionary of two thousand and one.
- ↑ Commissioner Maigret sets a trap (France / Italy) . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1958, pp. 58 ( online ).
Web links
- Maigret sets a trap in the Internet Movie Database (English)