Maigret Sets a Trap (film)
- Jean Gabin: Inspector Maigret
- Annie Girardot: Yvonne Maurin
- Jean Desailly Marcel Maurin
- Olivier Hussenot: Inspector Lagrume
- Jeanne Boitel: Madame Maigret
- Lucienne Bogaert: Madame Maurin
- Jean Debucourt: Camille Guimard, Police Chief
- Guy Decomble: Mazet
- Paulette Dubost: Mauricette Barberot
- Jacques Hilling: lawyer
Maigret sets a trap is a Franco- Italian crime film of Intremondia from 1958 based on the novel Maigret sets a trap by Georges Simenon. The addition of " Commissioner ", the film received during its theatrical release, was omitted from the DVD release. The work of Jean Delannoy Director was the prelude to a small number of films with Jean Gabin in the title role of Inspector Maigret.
Action
Maigret is behind a wife murderer ago, the Paris holds its breath. Using methods of psychoanalysis, he manages the murderer to get on the track by letting arrest an innocent man, and thus the real culprit to his "Wage the public" brings.
Differences from the original novel
While Simenon novel Maigret sets a trap plays in the Montmartre district of Paris, the plot was laid in the feature film in the vicinity of the Place des Vosges in the Marais. The names of the people involved are partly changed. From Moncin was Maurin from Inspector Lognon, in the Maigret series also known as " Inspector curmudgeon ," Inspector Lagrume. Unlike in the original book, in which he is not exceptionally bad mood because his wife is currently in treatment, he is in the movie, the familiar curmudgeon. While the trigger for Maigret's case, the psychiatrist Tissot, does not occur in the film, as well as Simenon's general observations about psychology and reviewers, the action received by the affair Madame Maurin with a gigolo another twist. Overall, Oliver Hahn found on maigret.de the " digressions " of the film " partially plausible, as this was the story in the book".
Criticism
" Simenon novel was reacted with psychological care and cinematic precision. The natural decors are more than just window dressing picturesque, they give the characters persuasion. A successful thriller with excellent dialogues and unrelenting tension. "
" The slow motion facial expressions, mainly highlighted the thought processes wiser and kinder gangsters of the Parisian underworld with Gabin in his last roles, is the bourgeois complacency of Simenon character appropriate [ ... ]. The small people - Paris was photographed authentic and original. "
More films
1962
Maigret sets a trap ( The trap ) by Terence Williams. A television adaptation as part of a series with Rupert Davies as Commissioner.
1992
Maigret sets a trap by John Glenister. A television adaptation as part of a series with Michael Gambon as Commissioner.
1996
Maigret tend un piège by Juraj Herz. Other television series episode, this time with Bruno Crémer in the lead role.
2004
La trappola by Renato De Maria. Italian television film; Sergio Castellitto plays Maigret.