36th Precinct (Film)
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| Directed by | Olivier Marchal |
| Produced by |
Franck Chorot Cyril Colbeau-Justin Jean-Baptiste Dupont |
| Written by |
Olivier Marchal Franck Mancuso Julien Rappeneau |
| Starring |
Daniel Auteuil Gérard Depardieu |
| Music by |
Erwann Kermorvant Axelle Renoir |
| Cinematography | Denis Rouden |
| Edited by | Hugues Darmois |
| Distributed by | Gaumont Film Company |
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110 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | €13 million |
| Box office | $18.3 million |
36 Quai des Orfèvres (also known as 36th Precinct and Department 36) is a 2004 French film directed by Olivier Marchal and starring Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu. The film takes place in Paris, where two cops (Auteuil and Depardieu) are competing for the vacant seat of chief of the Paris Criminal police while involved in a search for a gang of violent thieves. The film is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years in the French police. The story is loosely inspired from real events which occurred during the 1980s in France (see the gang des postiches arrest). The film was nominated for eight César Awards.
The story revolves around two Prefecture of Police officers: Léo Vrinks (Daniel Auteuil), head of the BRI and Denis Klein (Gérard Depardieu), head of the BRB. Both want to catch a vicious gang of armoured-car robbers that have killed nine people. But when their immediate superior, the chief of the criminal police (André Dussolier), announces that he will soon retire, the rivalry pushes Klein to play dirty in order to get the promotion.
Vrinks is a good investigative detective with a loyal cadre of detectives and officers, as well as a stable of unsavory informants he has cultivated over the years. Klein, who has questionable ethics, is not so accomplished. Vrinks also helps people, in particular a bar tender who was raped and beaten by a criminal, Bruno (Ivan Franek), who was robbing the bistro where she was employed. Vrinks and his team kidnap Bruno, and drive him out to a forest for punishment. The gangster is stripped naked, given a mock execution, pushed into open grave, and warned to never molest that woman again. Unfortunately, Vrinks' methods catch up with him when he is tricked by Silien (Roschdy Zem), an incarcerated informant on day release, to be his getaway driver in the murder of Silien's gangster colleagues whose testimony had sent Silien to prison. However, the murdered guy was too one of Klein's informants, so Silien, in a quid pro quo exchange of Vrinks's alibi and silence, reveals the detective where the armoured-car gang are hiding, in an industrial suburb.
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