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Dossier 51
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Wikipedia article
'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 Csar Award for Best Writing for their adaptation. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot and style
An unnamed French agency, presumably an intelligence service (though this is never made clear), attempts to coerce a French diplomat into working for them. Their relationship forms the main plot of the film.
A book resembling a dossier (file) contains 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
* Franoise Bliard - Sylvie Mouriat
* Patrick Chesnais - Hads
* Jenny Clve - Agent 747
* Jean Dautremay - Esculape 3
* Grard Dessalles - Brauchite
* Jean-Michel Dupuis - Agent Hcate 8446
* Sabine Glaser - Pamla
* Nathalie Juvet - Marguerite Marie
* Franoise Lugagne - Madame Auphal
* Christophe Malavoy - Agent 8956
* Claude Marcault - Liliane Auphal / 52
* Franois Marthouret - Dominique Auphal / 51
* Jean Martin - Vnus
* Claire Nadeau - The 9000 Friend
* Michel Aumont - Mars's voice
References
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