Les murs du souvenir (2019)
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Gaëlle Bona, David Kammenos, Mhamed Arezki, Maëlia Gentil, Olivier Chantreau, Bulle Ogier
A body sealed inside a Colmar building leads a detective into a decades-old mystery.
The story
When a man’s body is discovered bricked up inside a building in downtown Colmar, Clara Mérisi arrives at the crime scene. There she meets François Gilbert, a forensic historian and anthropologist summoned by his assistant to examine the victim. The corpse is dressed in an SS uniform and appears to have been murdered 70 years earlier, raising the central question of how it came to be hidden in the building. Clara must investigate this historical mystery while under personal pressure from a divorce that is going badly.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The body of a man is found bricked up inside a building in downtown Colmar. Clara Mérisi arrives at the crime scene and finds François Gilbert there, a forensic historian and anthropologist who was called in by his assistant to examine the victim. The corpse, dressed in an SS uniform, was murdered 70 years earlier. How did he end up here? That is the question Clara must answer, under pressure because her divorce is going badly, against the backdrop of an investigation with historical dimensions.
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