File 51

the File 51 is a Romance of Espionnage of Gilles Perrault, published in 1969 (Éditions Beech), adapted to the Cinéma by Michel Deville in 1978.

The novel

A secret organization tries to put under its cut a French diplomat near an international organization.

The originality of the novel is to be presented in the form of a file, gathering only notes, memos, and account-returned spinning mills or of listening, exploiting the variations of page layouts and typographies.

The film

Comment

The adaptation of this novel, literary object par excellence since concerning the writing essentially, in the content as in the form, was a challenge raised with a certain success by Michel Deville. The intrigue sufficiently strong and is varied to justify a treatment scenaristic but the setting in scene knew to find its own brands to deserve the term of adaptation of the original idea, in particular by the decorations, the direction of actor or the recourse on several occasions to the subjective Caméra.

Data sheet

  • Title: the File 51
  • Realization: Michel Deville
  • Scenario: Michel Deville and Gilles Perrault, according to the novel éponyme of this last
  • Photography: Claude Lecomte
  • Music: Jean Schwartz, Franz Schubert
  • Assembly: Raymonde Guyot
  • Decorations: Noëlle Galland
  • Production: Philippe Dussart, Éléfilms
  • Country of origin: France
  • Format: Colors - 35 mm
  • Kind: Espionage
  • Lasted: 108 minutes
  • Coming out date: August 30th 1978

Distribution

Rewards

  • Price Méliès in 1978
  • César 1979 of the best scenario: Gilles Perrault
  • César 1979 of the best assembly: Raymonde Guyot
  • Price 1979 of the French Trade union of the Cinema
  • San Sebastian 1978: Cockle Argent Realizer

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