Paris, 1830: Vidocq is killed by a mirror masked man. A thief turned investigator, he was working on a case of men hit by lightning, burning up. A beautiful woman was involved. After Vidocq's death, his biographer tries to solve the case.
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| Gérard Depardieu | ... | Vidocq | |
| Guillaume Canet | ... | Etienne Boisset | |
| Inés Sastre | ... | Préah | |
| André Dussollier | ... | Lautrennes | |
| Edith Scob | ... | Sylvia | |
| Moussa Maaskri | ... | Nimier | |
| Jean-Pierre Gos | ... | Tauzet | |
| Isabelle Renauld | ... | Marine Lafitte | |
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Jean-Pol Dubois | ... | Belmont |
| André Penvern | ... | Veraldi | |
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Gilles Arbona | ... | Lafitte |
| Jean-Marc Thibault | ... | Leviner | |
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François Chattot | ... | Froissard |
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Elsa Kikoïne | ... | La muette |
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Fred Ulysse | ... | Le vieux souffleur |
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Paris. 1830. In the heart of the town, Vidocq, a famous detective, disappeared as he fights the Alchemist, an assassin that he has been pursuing for a few months. His young biographer, Etienne Boisset, decides to have revenge on Vidocq's death and takes the investigation on... Written by Anonymous
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FrenchRelease Date:
19 September 2001 (France) See more »Also Known As:
Dark Portals: The Chronicles of Vidocq See more »Edit
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FRF152,000,000 (estimated)Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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Eugène-François Vidocq (1775-1857) was a real-life French detective who, after spending his youth as a criminal, became a law enforcer and is now considered a pioneer of modern criminology. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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VIDOCQ (3+ outta 5 stars) Visually impressive mystery/thriller taking place in France around the time of the French Revolution. Gerard Depardieu plays the title character, Vidocq, a brilliant criminologist who is on the trail of a mysterious caped villain who wears a mirrored mask. In the opening scene the villain knocks Vidocq into a fit of fire and a young journalist (Guillame Canet),who is writing a biography of Vidocq, traces the great detective's last steps to bring the mysterious caped figure to justice. So we get flashbacks to Vidocq's investigation inter-cut with the writer's search. Depardieu makes for an interesting hero... sort of a cross between Sherlock Holmes and a professional wrestler. (You rarely saw Holmes pick up a villain and hurl him across a room.) The computerized special effects look a lot better in this movie than they do in some bigger-budgeted Hollywood movies... the backgrounds all have a veneer of unreality about them and yet they are still convincing. The conclusion is not much of a surprise but the discovery of the villain's identity is still pretty satisfying.