''Dossier 51'' () is a 1978 French
crime drama
Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...
film directed by
Michel Deville
Michel Deville (13 April 1931 – 16 February 2023) was a French film director and screenwriter.
Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level o ...
and based on a novel by
Gilles Perrault. Deville and Perrault won a
César Award for Best Screenplay, Dialogue or Adaptation for their adaptation. The film was screened in the
Un Certain Regard
(; 'A Certain Glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob.
The section presents 20 films with unusua ...
section at the
1978 Cannes Film Festival
The 31st Cannes Film Festival took place from 16 to 30 May 1978. American filmmaker Alan J. Pakula served as jury president for the main competition.
Italian filmmaker Ermanno Olmi won the ''Palme d'Or'', the festival's top prize, for the drama ...
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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
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Françoise Béliard - Sylvie Mouriat
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Patrick Chesnais
Patrick Chesnais (born 18 March 1947) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Patrick Chesnais was born in La Garenne-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine. He was educated at the '' Lycée Pierre Corneille'' in Rouen.
In 1989 ...
- Hadès
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Jenny Clève - Agent 747
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Jean Dautremay - Esculape 3
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Gérard Dessalles - Brauchite
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Jean-Michel Dupuis - Agent Hécate 8446
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Sabine Glaser - Paméla
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Nathalie Juvet - Marguerite Marie
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Françoise Lugagne - Madame Auphal
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Christophe Malavoy - Agent 8956
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Claude Marcault - Liliane Auphal / 52
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François Marthouret - Dominique Auphal / 51
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Jean Martin - Vénus
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Claire Nadeau
Claire Nadeau (; born 1 June 1945) is a French actress.
Theater
Filmography
References
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French film actresses
20th-century French actresses
21st-century French actresses
Actresses from ...
- The 9000 Friend
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Michel Aumont
Michel Henri Aumont (15 October 1936 – 28 August 2019) was a French theatre, film, and television actor. Throughout his career, he gained four Molière Awards and nominations for three César Awards. In 2015, he was made Grand Officer of the ...
- Mars's voice
References
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1978 films
1970s French-language films
1978 crime drama films
Films directed by Michel Deville
Gaumont (company) films
French crime drama films
1970s French films
French-language crime drama films
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