Les Brigades du Tigre
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| Directed by | Jérôme Cornuau |
| Produced by | Roberto Cipullo Vincent Roget |
| Written by | Xavier Dorison Fabien Nury |
| Starring |
Clovis Cornillac Diane Kruger |
| Music by |
Claude Bolling Olivier Florio |
| Cinematography | Stéphane Cami |
| Edited by | Brian Schmitt |
| Distributed by | TFM Distribution |
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125 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $17.8 million |
| Box office | $10.7 million |
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 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 and seriously instructed in French boxing.
Gathering a talented pan-European cast, the film is 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 , 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.
Valentin and his squad of Mobilards are assigned to track down the infamous Bonnot Gang.
Les Brigades du Tigre is also the name of a French TV serial, produced between 1974 and 1983.
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