Murder in Barcelona
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Murder in Barcelona |
| Original title | Un papillon sur l'épaule |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jacques Deray |
| script | Jean-Claude Carrière , Tonino Guerra |
| production | Yves Gasser , Yves Peyrot |
| music | Claude Bolling |
| camera | Jean Boffety , Jean Charvein |
| cut | Henri Lanoë |
| occupation | |
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Murder in Barcelona (original title: Un papillon sur l'épaule ) is a French thriller by Jacques Deray from 1978. The plot is based on the crime novel The Velvet Well by John Gearon.
action
Roland Fériaud, a French seaman, stops in Barcelona for a week. His wife Sonia wants to visit him there. After he was knocked down in the hotel, he woke up two days later in the sanatorium and soon found himself in a nightmare of criminal events. The attending physician persuades him that his memory of a murdered hotel guest in the room next door is pure hallucination as a result of the head injury. Fortunately, he is released as cured.
His wife Sonia will now also arrive in Barcelona as agreed. He quickly moved into another hotel with her because he was no longer comfortable with the Hotel Colon. When he briefly returns to the Hotel Colon to collect his luggage, he meets Madame Carrabo in the lobby , who is desperately looking for her husband. According to her description, he is the crime victim from the next room with whom Fériaud's troubles began. He also finds another dead person in one of the hotel rooms. Here he receives instructions over the phone that do not seem conclusive to him. Someone has asked him to hand over an ominous suitcase. Instead, Fériaud tries to leave the hotel inconspicuously through a side exit. Since the situation is starting to seem precarious to him, he calls in the police. When he is not believed there either, he suspects a plot and decides to leave the city immediately. His wife Sonia was kidnapped in an ambulance as a deposit for the suitcase, which Fériaud remembered never had. He is also warned to call the police again. Fériaud suspects his wife to be in the sanatorium where he himself woke up a few days ago. But apart from a mentally disturbed patient, he doesn't find anyone there anymore.
He makes an appointment with Madame Carrabo in a public place, always afraid of being followed. She also mentions a suitcase that probably belongs to her husband. She willingly gives Fériaud a locker bowl because the suitcase is deposited at Barcelona-França train station . Then she, too, is murdered by running over a car.
Fériaud brings the suitcase to the agreed meeting point that the members of the mysterious organization gave him. In return, he can finally see his wife again. She lies in an ambulance dazed, but she quickly recovers from what has happened. She was passed out for most of her abduction. The Fériauds now also inform the French consulate about the course of events, but here too they are getting rid of them. A few minutes after Sonia left for her native France, her husband Roland Fériaud is shot in the street. This case is also shelved after four days after an unsuccessful investigation .
criticism
“A tightly staged, exciting film that portrays the order of the world as fragile. Settled with great precision and stylistic skill between fantastic and classic crime film. "
"The Kafkaesque film [...] captivates with its ominous atmosphere and proves why director Deray (" Borsalino ") was called Hitchcock of France."
background
The film was shot on location in Barcelona , including in the cloister of the cathedral . The clinic walls are on Carrer de Josep Garí in the Barcelona suburb of Sant Gervasi - la Bonanova .
The film was first shown on German television on March 10, 1984 on ZDF .
Hitchcock had previously filmed a very similar scenario . In The Invisible Third from 1959, however, he let the protagonist get away with his life and he did not leave the viewer in the dark about the background.
synchronization
| role | actor | Dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|
| Roland Fériaud | Lino Ventura | Gottfried Kramer |
| Sonia Fériaud | Nicole Garcia | Gertie Honeck |
| Clinic doctor Dr. Bavier | Jean Bouise | Alf Marholm |
| Patient Raphaël | Paul Crauchet | Kurt E. Ludwig |
| Madame Carrabo | Laura Betti | Ingrid Metz-Neun |
| Police inspector | José Lifante | Klaus Kindler |
Swell:
Web links
- Murder in Barcelona in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Murder in Barcelona in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ^ Murder in Barcelona in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ Murder in Barcelona (1978) . In: Cinema . Retrieved March 28, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078439/locations
- ↑ Official address of the property: Avinguda del Tibidabo 44-46, Barcelona. Note picture number two.
- ↑ Filmdienst.de (→ Credits) and Spiegel.de .
- ↑ Murder in Barcelona . In: German synchronous card index . Retrieved March 28, 2015.