- The Tiger Brigades
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name = The Tiger Brigades (Les Brigades du Tigre)
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director =Jérôme Cornuau
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starring =Clovis Cornillac Diane Kruger
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distributor =Miramax Films (US)
released =April 12 ,2006
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country =France
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imdb_id = 0462667"The Tiger Brigades" ( _fr. 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 byGeorges Clemenceau to combat rampant crime in 1912Paris . 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 trained tosavate techniques.Set in a very rich and interesting "
Belle Époque ", it deals with a lot of real historical plots and characters like the scandal of theRussian 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
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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 asJules 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 asAlphonse Bertillon
*Mathias Mlekuz asCélestin Hennion
*Nicholas Calderbank asSir Hollingworth
*Roland Cope asRaymond Poincaré External links
*imdb title|id=0462667|title=Les Brigades du Tigre
*imdb title|id=0166036|title=Les Brigades du Tigre (TV series)
* [http://www.tfmdistribution.com/lesbrigadesdutigre/accueil.htm Official site of the movie]
* [http://www.lesbrigadesdutigre.fr.st a fansite on the serie and the movie]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRE3wfAbwf8 The unmistakable beginning credits song of the old tv serie]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZwoXCZLAl4 A trailer of the movie subtitled in English]
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