The New Adventures of Vidocq

The New Adventures of Vidocq
German DVD cover
Genre	Crime
Written by	Georges Neveux
Directed by	Marcel Bluwal
Starring	Claude Brasseur Danièle Lebrun
Composer	Jacques Loussier
Country of origin	France West Germany
Original languages	French German
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	13
Production
Running time	55 minutes
Production companies	Gaumont Television Bavaria Film Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française Télécip
Original release
Network	ORTF ARD
Release	5 January 1971 (1971-01-05) – 10 December 1973 (1973-12-10)

The New Adventures of Vidocq (French: Les nouvelles aventures de Vidocq, German: Die Abenteuer des Monsieur Vidocq) is a historical crime television series which originally ran between 1971 and 1973. It was 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

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