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Le dossier Chelsea Street

Le dossier Chelsea Street

  • Overview
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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 30, 1962

Runtime

1h 8m

Genres

Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller, TV Movie

Original Title

Le dossier Chelsea Street

Production Companies

Radio-Télévision Française

Director

Marcel Bluwal

Description

A French telefilm broadcast on 30th September 1962, this is a detective fiction, set in London, 1927. The plot is set in a single space... a police interrogation room for suspects. It has only three characters; the suspect, who is an architect, and an idealist influenced by radical ideas. The other two characters are policemen, who try to coax from him the motive behind the death (murder?) of his three year old child. Even in a remastered DVD, the beta production values of a television production will be evident. But at barely a few minutes over an hour, it packs a brisk, at times rushed, but an interesting narrative. Makes one wonder, what other gems must the TV vaults in France (and UK, and Germany, and Italy) conceal?