Police custody (film)

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Police custody is a French film of Claude Miller, left on September 23rd 1981, whose American film Suspicion is a remake.

Synopsis

One evening of midnight supper of new year to Cherbourg, the bodies of two young girls, killed and violated, have just been found in the dunes.
The inspector Antoine Gallien, assisted by his Belmont assistant, receives with the police station the Martinaud notary, notable local. Martinaud knew one of the young girls well, and a certain mystery plane on its private life. Door-close oppressing and relentless starts…

The Gallien inspector initially believes not to deal with the murderer but the ambiguous attitude of Martinaud, whose anger goes up as indices accumulate against him, the fact of changing opinion: of witness, it becomes suspect and Gallien the met as a police custody, Martinaud wanting to leave the police station. Gallien is however obstructed by the absence of evidence, but the arrival of the woman of Martinaud (Romy Schneider) will sow the disorder: according to it, her husband (with which the relations are at the dead point) has leaning improper for the children, and it known as lends themselves to provide to the inspector an index overpowering her husband for one of the murders.

Gallien finds Martinaud passed with tobacco through its assistant but refuses to denounce his colleague. The dramatic turn of events occurs: the true murderer is stopped and acknowledges. Gallien slackens Martinaud and questioned by this last - it would have made testify a little girl quoted by his wife, according to whom Martinaud would have spoken to him in a tempting way -, made mine not be well-informed. Martinaud leaves and finds his committed suicide wife - after it assisted with discovered which cleared her husband in their car. The film is closed on the dismayed face of Gallien.

Data sheet

Distribution

  • Lino Ventura: Antoine Gallien, police inspector
  • Michel Serrault: Jerome Martinaud, notary
  • Romy Schneider: Chantal Martinaud, her wife
  • Commercial Guy: Marcel Belmont, police inspector
  • Elsa Lunghini: Camille
  • Pierre Maguelon: Adami, police inspector
  • Jean-Claude Penchenat: the police chief
  • Didier Agostini
  • Patrick Depeyrrat
  • Serge Malik
  • Annie Miller

Around film

The future singer Elsa plays for the first time at the cinema, in the role of Camille, the little girl with which Jerome Martinaud fell in love and started the jealousy of his wife.

Quotations

  • Main Martinaud: “I do not remember any more who said: One ceases being in safety as soon as the door of a police station is passed. With you, to compose the number of the police force gives already the goose flesh. ”

Adaptations

Rewards

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See too

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