Cinema: who is Commissioner Maigret, who is making his return to the big screen?

jules Maigret returns to the cinema with the film Maigret and the young girl, directed by Patrice Leconte. The famous superintendent is played there by Gérard Depardieu, who perfectly takes on the role of this melancholic policeman, who, until the end, seeks the truth. A cop, laconic and gruff, known to all French people.

jules Maigretit’s a century of cinema and a prestigious cast. Jean Gabin played him at the cinema in the film Maigret and the Saint Fiacre. On television, Jean Richard played him in more than 85 TV movies, followed by Bruno Crémer. If everyone embodies the policeman in his own way, his creator, the writer Georges Simenon had a precise idea of ​​the character: “A very ordinary man in appearance, and besides of a very ordinary intelligence too. […] But who has the sense to sniff inside people.”