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| alt_name             = Le Fantôme du Louvre (Quebec)
| native_name          = {{Infobox name module|French|Belphégor ou le Fantôme du Louvre}}
| genre                = Thriller
| creator              =
| developer            =
| writer               =
| screenplay           = {{ubl|[[Claude Barma]]|Jacques Armand}}
| story                = Jacques Armand {{small|(dialogue)}}
| based_on             = ''[[Belphégor (novel)|Belphégor]]'' by [[Arthur Bernède]]
| director             = Claude Barma
| creative_director    =
| presenter            = [[Jean Topart]]
| starring             = {{Plainlist|
* [[Juliette Gréco]]
* [[Isaac Alvarez]]
* [[Yves Rénier]]
* [[Christine Delaroche]]
* [[René Dary]]
* [[François Chaumette]]
* [[Sylvie (actress)|Sylvie]]
* [[Paul Crauchet]]
* [[Marguerite Muni]]
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| composer             = [[Antoine Duhamel]]
| country              = France
| language             = French
| num_seasons          = 1
| num_episodes         = 4
| list_episodes        =
| executive_producer   = Robert Paillardon
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| location             = Europe
| cinematography       = Jacques Lemare
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| editor               = Marcelle Lioret
| camera               = Single-camera
| runtime              = 290 minutes
| company              = [[Pathé|Société Nouvelle Pathé Cinéma]]
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| network              = [[Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française|ORTF]]
| first_aired          = {{Start date|1965|March|06}}
| last_aired           = {{End date|1965|March|27}}
| related              = ''Belphégor'' (1927)<br>''[[The Curse of Belphegor]]'' (1967)<br>''[[Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre]]'' (2001)
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'''''Belphegor, or the Phantom of the Louvre''''' is a 1965 French television miniseries directed by [[Claude Barma]], based on [[Belphégor (novel)|the 1927 novel]] by [[Arthur Bernède]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.toutelatele.com/belphegor-29245|title=Belphégor - Séries TV - Toutelatele.com|last=Toutelatele.com|website=www.toutelatele.com|language=fr|access-date=2018-11-23}}</ref> It consists of four 70 minutes episodes.<ref>{{Citation|last=Cinema|first=Alamo Drafthouse|title=BELPHEGOR: THE PHANTOM OF THE LOUVRE {{!}} Alamo Drafthouse Cinema|url=https://drafthouse.com/show/belphegor-the-phantom-of-the-louvre|language=en|access-date=2018-11-23}}</ref>
== Plot ==
A mysterious phantom appears in the [[Louvre|Musée du Louvre]] in [[Paris]] at night. The guards are unable to catch it. A student, André Bellegarde obstinately tries to find out more about the strange creature by himself. He seems to be more effective in doing so than the local police led by commissaire Menardier. Bellegarde does cooperate with the police, too, but he mostly goes his own way investigating Belphégor's activity. A secret society is in the background. Bellegarde, in the meantime, is involved in two romances and cannot decide which woman to dedicate himself as the case gets more and more serious and criminal and threads meet.
==Cast==
* [[Juliette Gréco]] as Laurence / Stéphanie Hiquet
* [[Isaac Alvarez]] as Belphégor
* [[Yves Rénier]] as André Bellegarde
* [[Christine Delaroche]] as Colette Ménardier
* [[René Dary]] as Commissaire Ménardier
* [[François Chaumette]] as Boris Williams
* [[Sylvie (actress)|Sylvie]] as Lady Hodwin
* [[Paul Crauchet]] as Le gardien Gautrais
* [[Marguerite Muni]] as Louise Gautrais
* René Alone as Doublet
* Yves Bureau as Ménard
* Jacky Calatayud as L'enfant
==Legacy==
Danish filmmaker [[Lars von Trier]] has credited ''Belphegor'' and [[David Lynch]]'s television series ''[[Twin Peaks]]'' as inspirations for his miniseries ''[[The Kingdom (miniseries)|The Kingdom]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/all-stitched-up-well-nearly-1527519.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/all-stitched-up-well-nearly-1527519.html |archive-date=18 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=All stitched up – well, nearly |first=Adam |last=Mars-Jones |date=28 December 1995 |work=[[The Independent]] |access-date=23 October 2017}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0166420}}
[[Category:1960s French television miniseries]]
[[Category:1965 French television series debuts]]
[[Category:1965 French television series endings]]
[[Category:French crime television series]]
[[Category:Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française original programming]]
[[Category:Films directed by Claude Barma]]
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