POLICE
synopsis
Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brothers who traffic in drugs. He arrests one, Simon, and his girl-friend Noria. Simon's brothers go to their lawyer. He springs Noria, who promptly steals 2 million francs that belong to the Tunisians. They suspect her of the theft; her life as well as the lawyer's is in danger. Meanwhile, Noria is playing with both the lawyer and Mangin's affections. Mangin is mercurial anyway: intimidating and bloodying suspects, falling for a police commission trainee before flipping for Noria, wearing his emotions on his sleeve. Can he save the lawyer and Noria, and can he convince her to love?
original title: | Police |
country: | France |
year: | 1985 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Maurice Pialat |
film run: | 113' |
release date: | FR 04/09/1985, BE 07/10/1985, IT 03/04/1986, NL 24/04/1986, DK 22/08/1986, SE 06/02/1987, PT 26/06/1987, FI 17/07/1987, DE 20/10/1988 |
screenplay: | Catherine Breillat, Sylvie Pialat, Jacques Fieschi, Maurice Pialat |
cast: | Gérard Depardieu, Sophie Marceau, Maurice Coussonneau |
cinematography by: | Luciano Tovoli |
film editing: | Yann Dedet |
art director: | Constantin Mejinsky |
costumes designer: | Malika Brahim |
producer: | Emmanuel Schlumberger |