Dossier 51
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Duration Country France | 7.6/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Drama | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 30 August 1978 Similar movies The Woman in Blue (1972) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
Contents
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
Dossier 51 WikipediaDossier 51 IMDb Dossier 51 themoviedb.org