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The Tiger Brigades (film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Tiger Brigades' is a 2006 French crime film. Based on a very successful 1970s-'80s French television series of the same name the film depicts an Untouchables-type crack "Flying Squad" once formed by Georges Clemenceau to tackle 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, telephones, telegraphs and seriously trained in French boxing and Canne de combat.
Gathering a talented pan-European cast, the film is set in the vibrant 'Belle poque' and deals with a lot of real historical plots and characters like the scandal of the 'Russian Loans', the 'Triple Entente', the birth of modern profiling and crime-fighting police techniques, international police cooperation, the new rivalry between the PP (Paris Police Prefecture) and Clmenceau's Brigades (ancestors of the current Central Directorate of the Judicial Police), the birth of Socialism and famous Anarchist Movements.
Plot
Valentin and his squad of 'Mobilards' are assigned to track down the infamous Bonnot Gang.
Cast
*Clovis Cornillac as Commissaire Valentin
*Diane Kruger as Constance Bolkonsky
*douard Baer as Inspector Pujol
*Olivier Gourmet as Inspecteur Marcel Terrasson
*Stefano Accorsi as Achille Bianchi
*Jacques Gamblin as Jules Bonnot
*Thierry Frmont as Piotr
*La Drucker as La
*Aleksandr Medvedev as Prince Bolkonsky
*Grard Jugnot as Claude Faivre
*Agns Soral as Mademoiselle Amlie
*ric Prat as Alphonse Bertillon
*Didier Flamand as Louis Lpine
*Philippe Duquesne as Casimir Cagne
*Frdric Bouraly as Caby
*Mathias Mlekuz as Clestin Hennion
*Nicholas Calderbank as Hollingworth
*Roland Cope as Raymond Poincar
TV serial
'Les Brigades du Tigre' is also the name of a French TV serial, produced between 1974 and 1983.
References
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