Dossier 51

Dossier 51
Directed by Michel Deville
Produced by Philippe Dussart
Written by Michel Deville
Gilles Perrault
Starring Françoise Béliard
Music by Jean Schwarz
Cinematography Claude Lecomte
Edited by Raymonde Guyot
Distributed by Gaumont
Release dates
 30 August 1978
Running time
 108 minutes
Country France
Language French
Box office $2 million[1]

Dossier 51 (French: Le Dossier 51) is a 1978 French crime drama film directed by Michel Deville and based on a novel by Gilles Perrault. Deville and Perrault won a César Award for Best Writing for their adaptation. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.[2]

Plot and style

Intelligence service (though this is never made clear) attempts to coerce a French diplomat into working for them. Their reports build main line of film.

The book resembles a dossier (file) containing notes, memos, wiretap transcripts, expense reports and interoffice correspondence (including administrative details, even some bickering) written in various personal styles. Every department in the organization is identified by a Greek or Roman god: Jupiter, Mercury, Esculape, Mars, etc. The targets of their investigations have their names replaced by numbers: 51 for the target, 52 for his wife, and so on, further dehumanizing the proceedings.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=7853
  2. ↑ "Festival de Cannes: Dossier 51". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-23.

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