The Infernal Trio ( Le trio infernal ) ( Trio infernale )

The Infernal Trio (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Le trio infernal
Alternate Title: Trio infernale
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
101 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Uncut

Movie filmed in 1974 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Francis Girod
Jacques Rouffio

Written By:
Solange Fasquelle
Francis Girod

Actors:
Michel Piccoli ..... Georges Sarret
Romy Schneider ..... Philomena Schmidt
Mascha Gonska ..... Catherine Schmidt
Philippe Brizard ..... Chambon
Jean Rigaux ..... Villette
Monica Fiorentini ..... Magali
Luigi Zerbinati ..... Detreuil
Hubert Deschamps ..... Nurse
Monique Tarbès ..... Noemie
Andréa Ferréol ..... Doctor
Francis Claude ..... Insurance doctor
Pierre Dac
Jean-Pierre Honoré
Henri Piccoli
Martine Ferrière

Synopsis:

Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his lover Philomène Schmidt, a young German woman, who has just lost her job and home. To enable Philomène to remain in France, Georges finds her a husband - who dies conveniently of natural causes a month after the wedding. Georges repeats the trick with Philomène's sister, Catherine - marrying her off to an old man who dies suddenly so that the scheming trio can profit from his life insurance. When an accomplice in the scheme, Marcel Chambon, threatens to blackmail them, Georges and his two lovers have no option but to kill him and his mistress. Having dissolved the bodies in sulphuric acid, Georges hires another man to pose as Chambon so that he can secure his assets. Flush with the success of this venture, Georges proposes his most ambitious scam: he will insure Catherine's life with five separate insurance companies; a young orphan woman who is dying from tuberculosis will provide Catherine's death certificate when the moment comes. Unfortunately, the scheme does not go quite as planned...

An elegant and outrageous black opera, handled with a panache that deliberately flouts notions of good taste. Piccoli enjoys himself hugely as the civic eminent (a distinguished lawyer newly invested with the Legion of Honour) who swindles and murders unscrupulously with the help of his lovers, two sisters (Schneider and Gomska). The result is a finely balanced fairytale (complete with 'happy' ending), full of a subversive mockery of pathetic respectabilities, unkind but not callous. Avoid the English-dubbed version, which coarsens the film to such an extent that it's scarcely recognisable: the exuberant excesses of Piccoli's performance are made to look merely hammy.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 08 September, 2010.

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