The New Adventures of Vidocq
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Release | 5 January 1971 10 December 1973 | –
The New Adventures of Vidocq (French: Les nouvelles aventures de Vidocq, German: Die Abenteuer des Monsieur Vidocq) is a
co-production between France and West Germany, with shooting taking place partly at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The main character is based on the life of Eugène François Vidocq, an early nineteenth century criminal turned crime-fighter. A previous series Vidocq
had been made in 1967.
Main cast
- Claude Brasseur as François Vidocq
- Danièle Lebrun as Baronne de Saint-Gely
- Marc Dudicourt as Flambart
- Jacques Seiler as Desfossé
- Pierre Pernet as L'acrobate
- Alain MacMoy as Le marquis de Modène
- Walter Buschhoff as Le docteur
- Robert Party as Fouché
References
- ^ Anderson p.28
Bibliography
- Malcolm Anderson. In Thrall to Political Change: Police and Gendarmerie in France. OUP, 2011.
- Jean-Pierre Mattei. Napoléon & le cinéma: un siècle d'images. Editions Alain Piazzola, 1998.
External links
- The New Adventures of Vidocq at IMDb