Without a trace (2010)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Without a trace |
| Original title | Sans laisser de traces |
| Country of production |
France Belgium |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Grégoire Vigneron |
| script | Grégoire Vigneron Laurent Tirard |
| production |
Olivier Delbosc Marc Missonnier |
| camera | Laurent Dailland |
| cut | Valérie Deseine |
| occupation | |
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Without a trace (also without a trace - The perfect crime , original title: Sans laisser de traces) is a Franco-Belgian film by director Grégoire Vigneron . It was first published in France on March 10, 2010.
action
Étienne Meunier is a successful manager who is about to become the head of a large cleaning products company and who seems to be leading a happy life with his wife Clémence. However, he is plagued by great feelings of guilt, which are also noticeable in his dreams. He confides in his old school friend Patrick, whom he happens to meet again after years, that his career is based on a lie: the formula for his company's most successful product, a stain remover, was not developed in his own laboratory, but by a man named François Michelet submitted, who never received a fee for it.
Patrick suggests that Étienne apologize to Michelet to ease his conscience, and the two visit Michelet at his house. When Michelet does not want to resign himself to the apology and compensation of 45,000 euros, but threatens a court case, a scuffle ensues. Patrick accidentally kills the man with a bottle. Étienne and Patrick flee. Étienne gives Patrick money to make him disappear. After Patrick has cheered a large part of the money, he asks Étienne again for help. Étienne tries to get him a bogus job in Singapore. This in turn arouses the distrust of his father-in-law and boss.
Fleur, Michelet's daughter, finds Etienne's number on her father's cell phone and contacts him. She wants to find out more about her father as she lived with her mother all her life. The two become friends, and Étienne offers her his city apartment so that she can finish her studies. When Clémence learns that Étienne has made the apartment available to Fleur without telling her, she leaves him and moves in with her parents. These forbid Étienne any contact with her.
Meanwhile, the policeman Kazinski is looking for the murderer and also recognizes connections between Étienne and Michelet. When Patrick tries to smuggle drugs out of the country, it is discovered by chance that his fingerprints match those from Michelet's house. He comes into custody and demands from Étienne 1 million euros a year for his silence. Due to the pressure Patrick put on him, Étienne considers making a confession. This would also reduce the sentence. He says goodbye to his wife and puts a letter under Fleur's door, in which he describes what happened that night. While he is waiting in the interrogation room for Kazinski to confess everything and thereby mitigate his sentence, he receives a call from Patrick's lawyer. Patrick had thrown himself out of the window in the judge's room while trying to escape and was dead. Étienne immediately left the interrogation room without making a confession. He drives to Fleur one more time to fetch the letter before she reads it; but the letter is no longer there. Fleur sees Étienne at her door and invites him in. She thanks him and notices that he has similarities with her father. She asks him for financial support with her studies. When he leaves, he finds the opened letter in his coat pocket.
In the last scene you see Étienne coming home, where his wife is waiting for him.
synchronization
The synchronization took place under the direction of Christoph Seeger.
| actor | speaker | role |
|---|---|---|
| Julie Gayet | Ulrike Stürzbecher | Clémence Meunier |
| Benoît Magimel | Viktor Neumann | Étienne Meunier |
| Léa Seydoux | Anne Helm | Fleur |
| André Wilms | Jan Spitzer | François Michelet |
| Stéphane de Groodt | Thomas Petruo | Kazinski |
| Yves Jacques | Helmut Gauss | Maître Bardon |
| Jean-Marie Winling | Klaus Sunshine | Maurice |
| Dominique Labourier | Anita Lochner | Micheline |
| François-Xavier Demaison | Dirk Bublies | Patrick Chambon |
criticism
Without a trace was mostly positively received. The Metascore service Internet Movie Database found 6.5 out of 10 positive votes for traceless . The lexicon of the international film summed up: "Instead of action and effects, the psychological thriller focuses on underground irritations and creates a lurking, crackling atmosphere of latent tension." Cinema also gave a positive verdict: "Calmly told thriller" for "Friends of old-fashioned suspenses" it says there.
Rochus Wolff drew a negative balance: "Sans laisser de traces [...] is a strange thriller in which one remains in the dark for a long time about the real motives of even the protagonists, and which also consistently uses a distant, downright cold attitude, aesthetically speaking, which unfortunately makes it all the more difficult to cheer for the protagonist, even to worry about him ”.
Web links
- Without a trace in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Without a trace on synchronkartei.de, accessed on August 27, 2014.
- ↑ Sans laisser de traces on imdb.com, accessed on August 27, 2014.
- ↑ Without a trace on zweiausendeins.de, accessed on August 27, 2014.
- ↑ Without a trace on cinema.de, accessed on August 27, 2014.
- ↑ Rochus Wolff: Sans laisser de traces (2010) on buttkickingbabes.de, accessed on August 27, 2014.