The Tiger Brigades (film)

The Tiger Brigades (Les Brigades du Tigre)
The Tiger Brigades (Les Brigades du Tigre)
	French movie poster.
Directed by	Jérôme Cornuau
Starring	Clovis Cornillac; Diane Kruger
Distributed by	Miramax Films (US)
Release dates	April 12, 2006
Country	France

The Tiger Brigades (French: Les Brigades du Tigre) 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.

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 Loans, 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...

Plot

Valentin and his squad of Mobilards is assigned to track down the infamous Bonnot Gang.

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
Mathias Mlekuz as Célestin Hennion
Nicholas Calderbank as Sir Hollingworth
Roland Cope as Raymond Poincaré

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