With devilish greetings
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | With devilish greetings / Diaboliquement vôtre |
| Country of production | France , Italy , Germany |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Julien Duvivier |
| script | Julien Duvivier Roland Girard Jean Bolvary Paul Gégauff |
| production | Raymond Danon |
| music | François de Roubaix |
| camera | Henri Decaë |
| cut | Paul Cayatte |
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With devilish greetings is a German - Italian - French thriller by Julien Duvivier from 1967 with Alain Delon and Senta Berger in the leading roles. The novel Manie de la persécution by Louis C. Thomas served as a literary model .
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Georges Campo has suffered from amnesia since a serious car accident . Even his wife Christiane, who was unharmed in the accident, he is unable to recognize when she and his friend Dr. Frédéric Launay from the hospital. To his great surprise, his house is a magnificent villa with an adjacent park. Christiane now wants to take care of him there. To protect him, she even refrains from sharing the bed with him. Frédéric also often comes by to see Georges' injuries and give him medicine. Only the in-house butler, a half-Chinese named Kim, does not seem benevolent towards Georges.
Over time, however, Georges began to doubt that he was a wealthy businessman who allegedly recently returned from a business trip from Hong Kong . He begins to remember a life as a Foreign Legionnaire in North Africa. The name Pierre Lagrange also buzzes repeatedly through his head. But nobody seems to know a man by that name. Georges cannot believe that he is said to have cheated on Christiane several times in the past.
Meanwhile, the gate of his property is always locked and a phone is not available, which is why Georges feels increasingly like a prisoner. In nightmares he is also followed by voices urging him to kill himself. Finally, he realizes that all information about himself that he received after the accident comes solely from Christiane and Frédéric.
As it turns out, Georges is caught in a web of lies and deceit. He is not a wealthy businessman, nor is he married to Christiane. She and her lover Frédéric had murdered her actual husband. Georges, whose real name is Pierre Lagrange, was then supposed to play her husband and die in an accident or suicide, whereupon Christiane and Frédéric wanted to share the inheritance.
background
With devilish regards , the last film was directed by Julien Duvivier . He died in a car accident before the film premiered in France on December 22, 1967 under its original title Diaboliquement vôtre . The Eastman Color thriller was first shown in German cinemas on August 20, 1968. On October 7, 1978, it was broadcast for the first time on German-language television under the GDR title Teuflisches Spiel on DFF 1 . In 2007 the film was released on DVD.
Reviews
"A cleverly conceived and cool, elegantly staged psycho-thriller," said the lexicon of international films . Cinema drew a similar conclusion: "A sophisticated game of appearance and reality." The Protestant film observer described the film as a "highly polished piece of dream factory [...] which lacks logic and psychological credibility to a considerable extent."
German version
The German dubbed version was created in 1968 by Aura Film Synchron GmbH Berlin. The dubbing direction and the dialogue script was done by Conrad von Molo .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Georges Campo / Pierre Lagrange | Alain Delon | Wolfgang Draeger |
| Christiane | Senta Berger | Senta Berger |
| decorator | Claude Piéplu | Klaus Miedel |
| doctor | Albert Augier | Edgar Ott |
| Nurse | Renate Birgo | Uta Hallant |
| Dr. Frédéric "Freddie" Launay | Sergio Fantoni | Jürgen Thormann |
literature
- Maurice Bessy, Raymond Chirat, André Bernard: Histoire du cinéma français. Encyclopédie des Films 1966–1970. (with photos for each film) Éditions Pygmalion, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-85704-379-1 , p. 183.
Web links
- Diabolically yours in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- With devilish greetings from filmportal.de
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ With devilish greetings. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ Evangelischer Film-Beobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 404/1968.
- ↑ cf. synchrondatenbank.de