Les Brigades du Tigre

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.

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• Plot
• Cast
• TV serial
• References

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 Russian Loan, 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.

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 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

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.