Vidocq (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Vidocq |
| Original title | Vidocq |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pitof |
| script | Pitof, Jean-Christophe Grangé |
| production | Dominique Farrugia |
| music | Bruno Coulais |
| camera |
Jean-Pierre Sauvaire , Jean-Claude Thibaut |
| cut | Thierry Hoss |
| occupation | |
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Vidocq is a French Mystery - Thriller with (pseudo) historical background of the director and visual effects specialists Pitof from the year 2001 . The film tells a fictional case of the criminalist Eugène François Vidocq , who is portrayed by Gérard Depardieu . In Germany, the film was shown for the first time on July 28, 2002 as part of the Fantasy Film Festival .
action
Paris 1830: France's best detective, Vidocq, confronts a person wearing a mirrored mask in a glass blowing factory . Vidocq is defeated in the fight and demands, holding on to the edge of a fire pit, to see the face of the masked man. Then Vidocq falls into the shaft and the press announces his death.
Political unrest is now spreading in the streets and the people are preparing riots. Shortly after Vidocq's reported death, the young journalist Etienne Boisset appears at Vidocq's partner Nimier and identifies himself as Vidocq's official biographer who wants to clarify the circumstances of Videocq's death.
Nimier reports how, on a thunderstorm day, Messrs. Belmont and Veraldi, an arms manufacturer and a chemist, were struck by lightning and burned to the bone. The police assumed a political murder and feared an assassination attempt on King Charles X. Due to excessive workload, the police prefect transferred the case to his former investigator Vidocq and his partner.
While visiting the Belmont armory, they witnessed an accident in which a worker caught fire. The factory manager explained this by means of explosive residues on clothing. In response to the detectives' suspicion that such remains of explosives had also been found on Belmont's clothing, the manager replied that his clothing was always brushed through by the laundresses. Vidocq and Nimier learned that Belmont's clothing was made by a black African . He admitted that he had refrained from brushing Belmont and Veraldi's coat, as he had received a letter written in blood asking him to do so.
Vidocq found out through an experiment and investigation of the burned people that the lightning bolts were directed at the people by means of a golden comb of a Chinese woman in the hat of the burned people.
Etienne learns from Nimier that Vidocq has continued the investigation on his own before Nimier falls asleep. Meanwhile, the investigative authorities are investigating Vidoqc's death in the glass blowing workshop. However, the circumstances remain in the dark.
Etienne regains access to the Vidocqs detective agency and finds the golden combs that lead him to the dancer Préah. She tells him that she knew Vidocq. After he had confronted her with his findings, she confessed to him that she had hidden the combs in the hats of her customers Belmont and Veraldi, since she had been asked to do so by letter and that she had also asked the doctor Ernest Lafitte, the director of the Invalides , did without knowing about the consequences. Together with Vidocq she drove to the Invalides Cathedral, but Vidocq could no longer prevent Lafitte's death. At the scene of the crime, Vidocq spotted a person wearing a mirrored mask that he was tracking but unable to grasp. Vidocq ruled out a political murder because of the Lafitte murder and suspected an act of revenge.
Préah tells Etienne that the three murdered people were obsessed with their appearance, Vidocq suspected perverse backgrounds and therefore went to the Paris red light district , where Etienne is now going. There he meets the puff mother Sylvia, who tells him that Belmont, Veraldi and Lafitte were looking for virgins , which she could not offer him. She referred him to the journalist Froissard, who knew about the intentions of the three men.
In Froissard's notes, Etienne finds statements about how the three murdered women bought young women. When he is caught by Froissard reading the recordings, he learns that the trail leads to the glass-blowing workshop. Froissard explains that he observed how the three men made the young women addicted to drugs and refers to Marine Laffite, who, however, was under the influence of drugs after her husband's death. Shortly afterwards, Froissard is murdered by the man in the mirrored mask.
The investigation into the death of Vidocq is not progressing. The prefect of police learns from his colleague Tauzet that he has statements that a monster with a mirrored face is up to mischief in the glass-blowing workshop . The prefect dismisses this as a legend .
Etienne visits Marine Laffite in an opium den . She tells him that her husband, together with Belmont and Veraldi, was addicted to the madness of eternal youth. She observed them at a meeting at which the masked man appeared and offered them the elixir of eternal youth in exchange for virgins. She tells Etinne that the masked man is the alchemist . The three men supplied the alchemist with virgins eight times, but after the alchemist had not supplied an elixir after the eighth time, her husband stopped and was therefore murdered, which she also told Vidocq. Vidocq was of the opinion that Lafitte's horses had memorized the way to the alchemist's laboratory . Shortly after her confession, Marine Laffite is murdered by the man in the mirrored mask.
Tauzet searches the archives for the records of the monster with the mirrored face and finds legends that say the monster absorbs the souls of dying people. Meanwhile, Etienne gains access to Vidocq's private archive in order to get hold of the records of the further course of Vidocq's investigations. The Prefect of Police has Vidocq's office searched and Etienne arrested, but he manages to escape. The fugitive finds out from the stolen documents that Vidocq was able to locate the alchemist's laboratory. During a confrontation between Vidocq and the alchemist, he was able to break his mask, but the alchemist was able to escape. Vidocq found out that the alchemist used the blood of the virgins to obtain the material for his mask, which was then cast in the glass factory.
Etienne is found by Nimier, who says he came across a glassblower who watched the death of Vidocq. Together with Préah they go to the glass-blowing workshop, where they are seen by Tauzet. The police have since found the bodies of Froissard and Marine Laffite and suspect that the alchemist also wants to murder Etienne. Tauzet reports that Etienne is on the way to glass blowing.
Etienne, Nimier and Préah meet the glassblower who made the alchemist's mask. He tells them that he saw Vidocq deliberately drop himself into the fire pit. Etienne does not want to believe this. The glassblower finally reveals himself as Vidocq, who was hiding after seeing the alchemist's face. It is Etienne who puts on his mask after his discovery. Nimier shoots him, but the bullet ricochets off the mask and hits Nimier.
After a fight in a room full of mirrors, the masked man injures Vidocq and takes off his mask. Vidocq can finally pierce the exposed Etienne with a splinter of a mirror and throw it out of the window into the Seine .
In a cemetery, at Nimier's funeral, the prefect of police declares that the king was on the run as a result of the July Revolution and that his own fate was open. The film ends with a shadow that moves over the cemetery gate and that always appeared in the Etienne murders.
synchronization
For the dialogue book and dialogue director was Heinz Friday on behalf of Johannisthal synchronous responsible.
| role | Actress | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Vidocq | Gérard Depardieu | Manfred Lehmann |
| Etienne Boisset | Guillaume Canet | Viktor Neumann |
| Préah | Inés Sastre | Irina von Bentheim |
| Lautrennes | André Dussollier | Wolfgang Condrus |
| Sylvia | Edith Scob | Regine Albrecht |
| Nimier | Moussa Maaskri | Jörg Hengstler |
| Tauzet | Jean-Pierre Gos | Rudiger Evers |
| Marine Laffite | Isabelle Renauld | Heidrun Bartholomäus |
| Belmont | Jean-Pol Dubois | Eberhard Prüter |
| Veraldi | André Penvern | Hasso Zorn |
| Chief of glassblowers | Fred Ulysse | |
| Lafitte | Gilles Arbona | Bodo Wolf |
| Leviner | Jean-Marc Thibault | Jürgen Kluckert |
| Froissard | François Chattot | Gerhard Paul |
| Gandin | Akonio Dolo | Michael Telloke |
criticism
“From the distorted grimaces of the fast-paced entrance scene to the finale in the mirror cabinet, in which the alchemist is hunted down with his own weapons, a gloomy world of horror emerges, a picture book of ugliness, an anti-“ Amélie ”. Especially with the central element of the story, the reflective mask of the unknown murderer, the effects achieve a fascinating brilliance. "
“In flashbacks, the research of a detective told who in 1830, with the help of modern scientific methods, wanted to track down a cunning murderer. Dark, lavishly staged fantasy thriller based on historical events, whose opulent imagery takes your breath away despite its programmatic ugliness. "
Awards
Vidocq was honored in 2001 at the Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya as best film as well as in the categories make-up , original soundtrack , visual effects and the Citizen Kane Award for best reveal.
Furthermore, he received the Grand Prix of European Fantasy Films in silver and the prize for the best special effects at the Fantasporto Festival in 2002 .
music
The Finnish group Apocalyptica and Matthias Sayer contributed to the soundtrack of Vidocq .
Web links
- Vidocq in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Vidocq in: Cinema
Individual evidence
- ^ Vidocq. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing files , accessed on March 7, 2020 .
- ^ Vidocq. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .