The Tiger Brigades (film)

The Tiger Brigades
French movie poster.
FrenchLes Brigades du Tigre
Directed byJérôme Cornuau
Written byXavier Dorison
Fabien Nury
Produced byRoberto Cipullo
Vincent Roget
StarringClovis Cornillac
Diane Kruger
Édouard Baer
Olivier Gourmet
Stefano Accorsi
Jacques Gamblin
Thierry Frémont
Léa Drucker
CinematographyStéphane Cami
Edited byBrian Schmitt
Music byClaude Bolling
Olivier Florio
Distributed byTFM Distribution
Release date
  • 12 April 2006 (2006-04-12)
Running time
125 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget$17.8 million
Box office$10.7 million[1]

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 then PM 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.

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 Louis Lépine's PP (Paris Police Prefecture) Brigade Criminelle and Clémenceau's Brigade Mobile (ancestors of the current Central Directorate of the Judicial Police), the birth of Socialism and famous Anarchist Movements.

Plot

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Valentin and his squad of Mobilards are assigned to track down the infamous Bonnot Gang.

Cast

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TV serial

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

References

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  1. ^ "Les Brigades du tigre (2006) - JPBox-Office".
  2. ^ "Tiger Brigades". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2014-09-17.
  3. ^ "The Tiger Brigades". Mubi. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
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