Maigret and His Greatest Case

89 minutesCountriesAustria
France
Italy
West GermanyLanguageGerman

Maigret and His Greatest Case (German: Maigret und sein grösster Fall) is a 1966 crime film directed by Alfred Weidenmann and starring Heinz Rühmann, Françoise Prévost and Günther Stoll.^[1] It was made as a co-production between Austria, France, Italy and West Germany. It is based on the 1931 novel Maigret at the Gai-Moulin featuring the fictional Sûreté detective Jules Maigret.

It was shot at the Sievering Studios in Vienna and on location in Lausanne. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hertha Hareiter.

Cast

• Heinz Rühmann as Kommissar Maigret
• Françoise Prévost as Simone Lefèbvre
• Günther Stoll as Alain Robin
• Günter Strack as Kommissar Delvigne
• Gerd Vespermann as Inspektor Caselle
• Christo Neggas as Adriano Genaro
• Ulli Lommel as René Delfosse
• Edwin Noel as Jean Chabeau
• Giacomo Furia as Marcello Genaro
• Claudio Camaso as Giorgio Genaro
• Alexander Kerst as André Delfosse
• Francesca Rosano as Franchita
• Peter Groß as Inspektor Lapointe
• Silvana Sansoni as Animierdame
• Peter Gerhard as Museumsdirektor
• Rudolf Barry as Inspektor Lucas
• Walter Varndal as Bauchladenmann
• Günther Ungeheuer as Mr. Holoway
• Eddi Arent as François Labas

References

Bibliography

• Woeller, Waltraud & Cassiday, Bruce. The Literature of Crime and Detection: An Illustrated History from Antiquity to the Present. Ungar, 1988.

External links

• Maigret and His Greatest Case at IMDb