Les Brigades du Tigre
| The Tiger Brigades Les Brigades du Tigre |
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 French movie poster. |
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| Directed by | Jérôme Cornuau |
| Starring | Clovis Cornillac Diane Kruger |
| Cinematography | Stéphane Cami |
| Distributed by | Miramax Films (US) |
| Release date(s) | April 12, 2006 |
| Running time | 125 minutes |
| Country | France |
Les Brigades du Tigre (English: The Tiger Brigades) is a 2006 French crime film, based on a very successful 1970s-'80s French television series of the same name. The story involves an Untouchables-type crack "Flying Squad" formed by Georges Clemenceau to combat rampant crime in 1912 Paris. The squads became known to the public as "Tiger Brigades", after Clemenceau's nickname "Le Tigre", and were among the first police units to be equipped with automobiles and seriously trained to savate techniques.
Gathering a talented pan-European cast, the film is set in a very rich and interesting Belle Époque, it deals with a lot of real historical plots and characters like the scandal of the Russian Loan, the Triple Entente, the birth of modern profiling and crime-fighting police techniques, the rivalry between the PP (Parisian Prefecture [Police Units]) and the Brigades of Clemenceau, the birth of Socialism and famous Anarchist Movements, some corruption affairs etc...
[edit] Plot
Valentin and his squad of Mobilards are assigned to track down the infamous Bonnot Gang.
[edit] Cast
- Clovis Cornillac as Commissaire Valentin
- Diane Kruger as Constance Bolkonsky
- Édouard Baer as Inspecteur Pujol
- Olivier Gourmet as Inspecteur Marcel Terrasson
- Stefano Accorsi as Achille Bianchi
- Jacques Gamblin as Jules Bonnot
- Thierry Frémont as Piotr
- Léa Drucker as Léa
- Aleksandr Medvedev as Prince Bolkonsky
- Gérard Jugnot as Claude Faivre
- Agnès Soral as Mademoiselle Amélie
- Éric Prat as Alphonse Bertillon
- Didier Flamand as Louis Lépine
- Mathias Mlekuz as Célestin Hennion
- Nicholas Calderbank as Sir Hollingworth
- Roland Cope as Raymond Poincaré
- Philippe Duquesne as Casimir Cagne
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Les Brigades du Tigre at the Internet Movie Database
- Les Brigades du Tigre (TV series) at the Internet Movie Database
- Fansite on the series and the movie
- The unmistakable beginning credits song of the old tv serie
- A trailer of the movie subtitled in English
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