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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.
Aug 30, 1978 · Dossier 51: Directed by Michel Deville. With François Marthouret, Claude Marcault, Philippe Rouleau, Nathalie Juvet. An unnamed French intelligence service spies on and analyzes a French diplomat code name '51' to identify a method to control him.
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- Crime, Drama
- Michel Deville
- 1978-08-30
Le Dossier 51 est un film d'espionnage français réalisé par Michel Deville, sorti en 1978. Le scénario est inspiré d'un roman d'espionnage de Gilles Perrault publié en 1969.
- Michel Deville
- Philippe Dussart, Éléfilm
Dossier 51 (1978) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
French diplomat Dominique Auphal is put under surveillance by an unnamed secret service. They wish to find a weakness in his life in order to control him politically. Auphal becomes "File no. 51": his private life is spied, analysed and commented.
In 1969 Perrault published a spy novel, Le dossier 51. In 1978, Gilles Perrault published Le Pull-over rouge, a novel in which he expressed his doubts about Christian Ranucci's guilt (murderer of an 8 years old girl), a French criminal executed by guillotine on July 28, 1976.
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A foreign secret service put Dominique Auphal (a diplomat) under surveillance in order to find a psychological and/or social weakness in his life to ensure some kind of leverage to control him politically (by blackmailing). His life is analyzed, commented, discussed and rationalized. He's the File (number) 51.
