Dossier 51
1978 French film
- 30 August 1978 (1978-08-30)
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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
An elaborate surveillance operation is mounted by a French intelligence agency on a French diplomat, codenamed 51. While his professional life is not suspect, clandestine investigations into his private life reveal an increasing number of vulnerabilities.
Only surviving child of his adoring mother, she reveals that he was hated by her husband, who had betrayed his biological father to the Gestapo. At his Catholic school, the priests recall his propensity for fantasy about other boys. Military service kept him in an all-male environment and former comrades remember his construction of alternative realities about them. After a student affair with an anarchist of boyish appearance, he hastily married a girl of good family, who gave him two children but sleeps with other men.
When an agent wins his confidence and starts revealing knowledge of his past, he kills himself by driving into a tree. The operation is wound up.
Cast
- Françoise Béliard - Sylvie Mouriat
- Patrick Chesnais - Hadès
- Jenny Clève - Agent 747
- Jean Dautremay - Esculape 3
- Gérard Dessalles - Brauchite
- Jean-Michel Dupuis - Agent Hécate 8446
- Sabine Glaser - Paméla
- Nathalie Juvet - Marguerite Marie
- Françoise Lugagne - Madame Auphal
- Christophe Malavoy - Agent 8956
- Claude Marcault - Liliane Auphal / 52
- François Marthouret - Dominique Auphal / 51
- Jean Martin - Vénus
- Claire Nadeau - The 9000 Friend
- Michel Aumont - Mars's voice
References
External links
- Dossier 51 at IMDb
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Films directed by Michel Deville
- A Bullet in the Gun Barrel (1958)
- Tonight or Never (1961)
- Adorable Liar (1962)
- Because, Because of a Woman (1963)
- Girl's Apartment (1963)
- Lucky Jo (1964)
- The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen (1966)
- Kiss Me General (1966)
- Zärtliche Haie (1967)
- Benjamin (1968)
- Bye bye, Barbara (1969)
- The Bear and the Doll (1970)
- Raphael, or The Debauched One (1971)
- The Woman in Blue (1973)
- Love at the Top (1974)
- The Apprentice Heel (1977)
- Dossier 51 (1978)
- Le Voyage en douce (1980)
- Eaux profondes (1981)
- The Little Bunch (1983)
- Death in a French Garden (1985)
- Paltoquet (1986)
- The Reader (1988)
- Summer Night in Town (1990)
- Lest We Forget (1991)
- Toutes peines confondues (1992)
- Aux petits bonheurs (1994)
- La Divine Poursuite (1997)
- Sachs' Disease (1999)
- Almost Peaceful (2002)
- The Art of Breaking Up (2005)
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