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The Tiger Brigades (French: Les Brigades du Tigre) is a 2006 French crime film.[2][3] 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.

The Tiger Brigades
French movie poster.
French	Les Brigades du Tigre
Directed by	Jérôme Cornuau
Written by	Xavier Dorison Fabien Nury
Produced by	Roberto Cipullo Vincent Roget
Starring	Clovis Cornillac Diane Kruger Édouard Baer Olivier Gourmet Stefano Accorsi Jacques Gamblin Thierry Frémont Léa Drucker
Cinematography	Stéphane Cami
Edited by	Brian Schmitt
Music by	Claude Bolling Olivier Florio
Distributed by	TFM Distribution
Release date	12 April 2006 (2006-04-12)
Running time	125 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	$17.8 million
Box office	$10.7 million[1]

Gathering a talented pan-European cast, the film is set in the vibrant Belle Époque 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 Clémenceau'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
• Édouard Baer as Inspector 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
• Didier Flamand as Louis Lépine
• Philippe Duquesne as Casimir Cagne
• Frédéric Bouraly as Caby
• Mathias Mlekuz as Célestin Hennion
• Nicholas Calderbank as Hollingworth
• Roland Cope as Raymond Poincaré

TV serial

Les Brigades du Tigre is also the name of a French TV serial, produced between 1974 and 1983.

References

External links

• Official website
• The Tiger Brigades at IMDb

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