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Political detective director Henri Verneuil, I... comme Icare, 1979. The film reminds me a little (not in content) not so long ago I watched the film Costa Gavras “Zeta”, although there was a real case, and here the plot is completely fictional, but a little also resembles the case with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The action takes place in a fictional state, which is not called, during the passage of the President of the country he is killed, immediately find the alleged murderer, who killed the President, committed suicide. For a year they are investigating this murder, the commission is preparing to sign the final document, when suddenly one of the members of the commission prosecutor Henri Volnet (Yves Montane) refuses to sign it, and in this case he can head a new commission and conduct a re-investigation, especially since he manages to force the current chairman of the commission to publicly confess that he was recommended from above to conduct an investigation in this way, Volnet says that he has an original document (in fact he is bluffing, he has no document, but he got the spot, so it was). During the investigation, he kept quiet, knowing that he would not be able to convince that commission, and then he simply used their own rules. Several people support the prosecutor and together they begin a new investigation, soon it becomes clear that he was right, they find ends hidden in the water, or rather, killed witnesses who saw who really shot, but at the same time loses their guard, forgetting that he himself may become a target for these killers.
Despite the colloquial nature of this film, I watched it without tension, although there is a solid timekeeping, more than two hours, shot well and the actors are good, especially, of course, Eve Montana, whose hero becomes the same Icarus, too close to the edge, in this case - to the real killers.
The film begins with the epigraph “This story is completely true, because from beginning to end it was invented by me.” Boris Vian of The Foam of Days ends with a friend of the prosecutor, whom he called to remind him of the myth of Icarus: “If we consider the sun as a symbol of truth, we can say that Icarus died because he came too close to the true truth.”