Without data protection

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Movie
German title Without data protection
Original title Le dossier 51
Country of production France / Germany
original language French
Publishing year 1978
length 108 minutes
Rod
Director Michel Deville
script Michel Deville and Gilles Perrault
production Philippe Dussart
music Jean Black
camera Claude Lecomte
cut Raymonde Guyot
occupation

Without data protection (French: Le Dossier 51) is a French film based on a novella by Gilles Perrault . Michel Deville directed the film. The film was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 1978.

action

Dominique Auphal (François Marthouret) is a diplomat - and also works for an organization that is monitored by secret services. Several secret services try to win him over to work in their organization.

Perrault's novella is like a dossier. This contains notes, memos, listening transcripts, expense reports and copies of professional and private letters. The secret service departments are named after Greek or Roman deities such as Jupiter, Mercury, Aesculapia, Mars. The names of the people being monitored are replaced with numbers: 51 for the target, 52 for his wife, and so on, to illustrate the dehumanization of the process.

A psychoanalytic investigation of the goal reveals that homosexual offers could help achieve the goals of the secret organization. You influence people around the monitored person until enough material is available to initiate blackmail. The person being monitored then dies after a car accident in which suicide cannot be ruled out. The book or dossier closes with an irrelevant statement to show that the supervising authority shows no remorse or sense of responsibility for the tragic consequences of the investigation.

background

The film thematizes the importance of data protection in view of the various possibilities of state authorities to circumvent the anonymity of personal work.

criticism

"An excitingly staged examination of the possibilities and limits of control and monitoring systems, characterized by humanistic commitment."

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