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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere

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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere	comment	The Mark of the Angels â€“ Miserere (original title: La marque des anges â€“ Miserere) is a 2013 French thriller film directed by Sylvain White and based on Jean-Christophe GrangÃ©'s 2008 novel Miserere.The Interpol agent Frank Salek (JoeyStarr) is investigating on an international smuggling ring kidnapping children, while the retired French policeman Lionel Kasdan (GÃ©rard Depardieu) investigates the weird murder of Wilhelm Goetz, a choir master and Chilean refugee found dead in his church. Salek founds a clue involving Goetz and teams up with Kasdan...
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: Salek seems to be in his forties, while Volokine is 30 in the book. Vernoux (the inspector responsible of the actual, offical, police investigation) is 35 in the book. His age isn't specified in the movie, but his actor Thierry Lhermitte was 61 at the time (4 years younger than Depardieu).
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_20016429	comment	Experienced Protagonist: Kasdan is a retired BRI agentnote "Research and Intervention Brigade", a police unit are specialized in serious criminal cases such as armed robbery and kidnappings and, according to the In-Universe datation, Interpol agent Salek is in his forties.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_23568a2a	type	Adaptational Job Change
The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_23568a2a	comment	Adaptational Job Change: In the novel, Volokine works for French Police (the unit specialized in investigation and repression of crimes against minors) instead of Interpol.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_23a1e2a9	type	Adaptation Deviation
The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_23a1e2a9	comment	Adaptation Deviation: The novel's climax is a shoot-out in the vicinity of the Colony (in central France) involving Kasdan and Volokine against the Colony's leaders. The film 's climax is a race against time in the Strasbourg European Parliament to prevent Laura Bernheim (a character absent from the book) from being murdered by the Colony.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_292d57cd	type	Crusading Widow
The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_292d57cd	comment	Crusading Widow: Downplayed with Kasdan: the death of his wife (in backstory) caused him to retire from police; he isn't pursuing his personal investigation it to avenge her death (she died of cancer), but merely because retiring just after her death made him feel like his career ended on a tragic failure. In the end, he felt saving Laura Bernheim solved this issue.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_30adeff3	comment	Defective Detective: Salek is an unstable and violent drug addict who is regularly consuming unspecified pills (and gets in trouble for his addiction).note In the original novel, Volokine is a former heroin addict who relapses during the story.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Since he's retired, Kasdan is not supposed to make his personal investigation on a murder and, after clashing several time with Vernoux, the latter threatens him to put him in custody if he keeps on with his personal crusade.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_4478c66d	comment	Flashback Nightmare: Salek background as a former member of the Colony is partly established through his nightmares.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_469e3e2f	comment	The movie's ending is less creepy, too. Both the novel and the movie end with the Colony being dismantled. In the movie, the protagonists managed to identify which of the children have been surgically altered with the voice weapon. In the novel, they don't and the last lines are In-Universe Fridge Horror where Kasdan realizes a sentient bioweapon is now somewhere outside, able to perform a terror attack.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_46ec76fb	type	Working the Same Case
The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_46ec76fb	comment	Working the Same Case: An international children kidnapping ring and the murder of a choir master in a Parisian church turn out to belong to the same case, linked by a Nazi cult originating from Chile. The kidnapped children were raised by the cult and some trained to become killers with their voice.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: Laura Bernheim, a high-ranking Interpol official leading the investigation on Blackstream and the children kidnappings.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The movie lacks several plot points from the novel. In the novel, Volokine (the character who's Salek is the movie's counterpart) is amnesiac and regaining memories of his childhood in the Colony plays a role in the plot. In the movie, he remembers all of this from the start. The movie entirely lacks Kasdan belonging to the community of Parisians French-Armenian. His own Dark and Troubled Past is entirely adaptated out as well.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: Finding children footprints on two crime scenes causes Kasdan to dream about being assaulted by creepy children.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_5f70322e	comment	Public Domain Soundtrack: Gregorio Allegri's Miserere is featured in the soundtrack and refered in the plot itself (Goetz's choir recorded its version of the piece and a scene has Kasdan listening to this specific version). It's even in the title of the movie.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_62624dc2	comment	Interpol Special Agent: Downplayed. Salek is an Interpol agent, but instead of being a solo, all-powerful secret agent, colleagues and hierarchy appear as well. On the other hand, he's stated to work for Interpol, not to be from a national police collaborating to an Interpol investigation.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_64713b04	comment	In the novel, one of the murder victims is a Pedophile Priest.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_71268450	comment	Adaptation Title Change: The original novel was originally titled Miserere, though it has been republished under the adaptation's title at the time of the adaptation's release.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_87629455	type	No Communities Were Harmed
The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_87629455	comment	No Communities Were Harmed: The Colony is a fictional counterpart of the real life Colonia Dignidad. Both were Chilean communes inhabited by German immigrants and led by a former Nazi, who served as a clandestine prison and torture center for Pinochet's regime. That being said, the Colonia Dignidad wasn't destroyed by a fire, didn't developed weapons based on human voice, and didn't have offshoots in foreign countries. Also, the founder of the Colonia Dignidad wasn't a concentration camp commander but a German army medic during World War Two.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: When Kasdan goes to the public front of the Colony in Belgium during the final act, the choir singers wear robes marked with a red shape similar to the S-rune (AKA the infamous SS symbol). The Colony is leaded by Nazis. In-Universe, it is a shape taken from the whole symbol of the Colony (two triangles).
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: In a flashback by one of his victims, Goetz takes part in a torture session in Pinochet's Chile, and his outfit strongly implies he was a catholic priest at the time.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: The bracelet worn by Salek belonged to his sister. He picked up in the charred ruin of the Colony.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Kasdan started his own personal investigation because Goetz was an acquaintance, as a the choir master of the church Kasdan attends.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_a8a9d045	type	Super-Scream
The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_a8a9d045	comment	Super-Scream: The murder weapon is the voice of a choirboy who suffered from a surgical operation of his throat to turn his voice into ranges allowing it to cause deafness or even death. It serves as torture/execution method used in black sites. The villain's plot in the movie consists in using it to murder Laura Bernheim.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_b72b12cf	type	Blood from Every Orifice
The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_b72b12cf	comment	Blood from Every Orifice: Goetz (and several latter victims) are found dead with blood coming from both ears. According to the autopsy, both eardrums and inner ears have been destroyed and he died from a heart attack caused by the extreme pain.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_baeb2d6f	type	Glass-Shattering Sound
The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_baeb2d6f	comment	Glass-Shattering Sound: Subtlely used as a clue about the nature of the murders: several crime scenes have the surrounding windows (or the stained glass in Goetz's church) broken.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: That's not immediately obvious due to the film's darkness, but some changes make the film this to the original novel. Contrary to Salek, Volokine is a heroin addict and temporarily relapses. Part of the novel's plot is connected to Kasdan Dark and Troubled Past, who is revealed to be a French soldier who deserted during a decolonisation war. He's not even "Kasdan", since the real Lionel Kasdan was an army buddy of him, who died during the campaign; he usurped this identity after deserting. In the novel, one of the murder victims is a Pedophile Priest. The movie's ending is less creepy, too. Both the novel and the movie end with the Colony being dismantled. In the movie, the protagonists managed to identify which of the children have been surgically altered with the voice weapon. In the novel, they don't and the last lines are In-Universe Fridge Horror where Kasdan realizes a sentient bioweapon is now somewhere outside, able to perform a terror attack.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: In the original novel, Frank Salek is named CÃ©dric Volokine and is described as a Frenchman of Russian ascend. In the movie, he is played by Black actor/singer JoeyStarr.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_da06866e	type	Old Cop, Young Cop
The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_da06866e	comment	Old Cop, Young Cop: Downplayed. Salek is an Interpol agent in his forties teaming up with a retired BRI policeman.note JoeyStarr and GÃ©rard Depardieu were respectively 46 and 65 when the film was shot
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_dc292b90	type	Ear Ache
The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_dc292b90	comment	Ear Ache: Eardrum and hearing-based version. The voice-based weapon developed by the Colony causes the destruction of both eardrums and inner ears, which kills several characters, starting with Goetz. Peter Hansen, a Chilean exile met by the protagonist, is a deaf survivor of this mean of torture. At the end of the interview, he lifs his hair, showing his ears are filled with scar tissue. In a bit of karmic justice, at the end of the film Salek cripples the leader of the Colony by firing a gun next to his ears in order to permanently deafen him.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_dc3e1299	comment	Argentina Is Nazi-Land: Chile variant. The Colony originated from a commune founded in Chile by a concentration camp commander.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: At the beginning, Salek has no clues beside a text extracted from the destroyed phone of a dead suspect he was investigating on (in Morocco). Said text solely consists in three incompletes names (full first name and surname's first letter). One of them is "Wilhelm G", which is how his investigation joined Kasdan's.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_e78e4ba1	comment	Black Site: The Colony and its various locations are clandestine interrogation and torture centers escaping from the law of the place they're built. Its source of inspiration, Colonia Dignidad, was a real life example of this as well.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: Salek managed to flee from Chile's Colony when he was young, but his sister was caught during the escape attempt and likely died when the Colony later was destroyed by a fire. She appears in several flashbacks.
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere / int_fed93e1b	comment	Part of the novel's plot is connected to Kasdan Dark and Troubled Past, who is revealed to be a French soldier who deserted during a decolonisation war. He's not even "Kasdan", since the real Lionel Kasdan was an army buddy of him, who died during the campaign; he usurped this identity after deserting.
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