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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.
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.
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.
Dossier 51 is, on one level, a fairly straightforward spy novel: thirty-six year-old French diplomat Dominique Auphal has been promoted to a new position in an international organization, and a branch of the secret service wants to exploit him as an insider -- and: "Experience has shown that French political and diplomatic staff are eminently ...
In the film, an espionage agency seeks to compromise an employee of a foreign government. And to compromise that foreign government employee, the spies try to find his greatest weakness. The weakness that their target isn't even aware of proves to be the target's greatest weakness. 18 out of 19 found this helpful.
