Carnets de mort
In the popular imagination, the executioner has always been seen as someone both “sacred” and “vile”. He has been obliged to live in the shadows. Beginning in the 17th century in France, certain families appropriated the profession of executioner and created a powerful corporation through marriages and alliances. The Deibler family was the last dynasty of executioners prior to the abolition of the death penalty in 1981. Grandson and son of the executioner Anatole Deibler, known as “Monsieur de Paris," was the Republic’s chief executioner from 1899 until his death in 1939. The revelation of his notebooks provided the filmmakers with the chance to lay bare, in an unexpected manner, a certain France, embracing the minor news item, “ordinary” criminality and the major affairs. Records of death sentences and executions, 14 notebooks in all, assiduously noted down with a certain obsession for details. They allow us to follow the daily life of a “lawful assassin” who executed some 400 people.
France - 2001 - 58 mn - Betacam Digital • PAL - Colour
Réalisation
Nicolas Glimois, Christophe Weber
Image
Laurent Ferrari
Montage
Laurent Ferrari
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Production
Sunset Presse,
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Co-Production
Histoire
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Ventes
Sunset Presse,
23, rue Sébastien Mercier,
75015 Paris, France
Tél : +33 (0)1 4575 5179
Fax : +33 (0)1 4575 8130
E-mail : sunsetpresse@sunsetpresse.fr |
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