A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.
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Xavier Beauvois
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| Nathalie Baye | ... | Commandant Caroline "Caro" Vaudieu | |
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Jalil Lespert | ... | Antoine Derouère |
| Roschdy Zem | ... | Solo | |
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Antoine Chappey | ... | Louis Mallet |
| Jacques Perrin | ... | Le juge Serge Clermont | |
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Bruce Myers | ... | L'Anglais |
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Patrick Chauvel | ... | Le lieutenant Patrick Belval |
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Jean Lespert | ... | M. Derouère, le père d'Antoine |
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Annick Le Goff | ... | Mme Derouère, la mère d'Antoine |
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Bérangère Allaux | ... | Julie Derouère, la femme d'Antoine |
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Mireille Franchino | ... | Mireille, la logeuse |
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Yaniss Lespert | ... | Alex Derouère, le frère d'Antoine (as Yanis Lespert) |
| Xavier Beauvois | ... | Nicolas Morbé | |
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Philippe Lecompt | ... | Armurier |
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Pierre Aussedat | ... | Commissaire |
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When a fresh young police academy graduate from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure world of the Parisian homicide squad, his schoolteacher wife is reluctant to go with him. He moves into a rooming house that caters to single cops as he embraces his fellow officers as an extended family. He becomes close to an Arab officer and his boss, a very professional but lonely, middle-aged female detective who is also a recovering alcoholic. Routine police procedure gives way to an intensive search among the city's homeless for an undocumented Russian immigrant who may be responsible for a series of violent crimes. Written by Gabe Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)
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interpreter | homicide | russian immigrant | recovering alcoholic | police procedure |Parents Guide:
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16 November 2005 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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Homicide detective: They help me to relax.
Antoine Derouère: I don't like to see animals locked up. Fish in a bowl suck!
Homicide detective: You're paid to lock Arabs and Blacks up. If you freak out over lizards, you won't get far.
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Reflected in window as Vaudieu and Solo exit the church. See more »Quotes
Antoine Derouère: [Noticing a lizard in a terrarium in the office] Why keep lizards here?Homicide detective: They help me to relax.
Antoine Derouère: I don't like to see animals locked up. Fish in a bowl suck!
Homicide detective: You're paid to lock Arabs and Blacks up. If you freak out over lizards, you won't get far.
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I saw the movie being a French police officer.
Usually I don't like movies about French police for they are mostly very unrealistic.
There however we have a story about what could be a regular case in one of the most important Crime Units in the city of Paris. With regular police work done by regular police detectives.
The actors are playing in a such realistic manner that they just could be real cops caught in their everyday work.
The movie is sad, very sad and hard. I don't think you would apply to become a police officer after seeing it ...