Maigret et le mort amoureux

Maigret and the Dead Lover
Director
Pascal Bonitzer
Country
France, Belgium
Year
2026
Genre
Fiction
Scriptwriters
Pascal Bonitzer
Cast
Denis Podalydès, Anne Alvaro, Manuel Guillot, Irène Jacob, Dominique Reymond, Laurent Poitrenaux, Micha Lescot, Julia Faure, Jeremy Lewin, Olivier Rabourdin
Production
SBS Films Productions, Versus Production

Storyline

Commissioner Maigret is urgently called to the Quai d’Orsay (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) after the murder of Monsieur Berthier-Lagès, a renowned former ambassador. He quickly discovers that Berthier-Lagès had been carrying on a fifty-year-long love correspondence with Princess de Vuynes, whose husband, in a curious twist of fate, has just died. As Maigret faces the members of both families and the suspicious silence of the diplomat's maid, he goes from one revelation to another...

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Málaga Film Festival 2026
Mosaico: International Scene

Releases

Spain (27 of March 2026)