The Woman Cop
The Woman Cop (French: La Femme flic) is a 1980 French film directed by Yves Boisset.
The Woman Cop | |
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Directed by | Yves Boisset |
Written by | Yves Boisset Claude Veillot |
Produced by | Alain Sarde |
Starring | Miou-Miou Jean-Marc Thibault Jean-Pierre Kalfon François Simon |
Cinematography | Jacques Loiseleux |
Edited by | Albert Jurgenson |
Music by | Philippe Sarde |
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Country | France |
Box office | $13.6 million[1] |
Plot
An ambitious and but not always methodical young policewoman clashes with her superiors in the southern city of Toulon and is summarily transferred to a small mining town in the far north. There she is assigned to secretarial work and then given what in the eyes of the local chief of police is an unimportant investigation. This leads her to uncover a network of child pornography and prostitution involving the most important family of the town. She struggles with the chief of police and the prosecutor to indict members of the family, but they refuse to back her and move forward against such locally powerful people. Forced to hand in her badge and resign, the film ends with her in a taxi with her bags on the way to the train station.
Cast and roles
- Miou-Miou - Inspector Corinne Levasseur
- Jean-Marc Thibault - Commissaire Porel
- Leny Escudéro - Diego Cortez
- Jean-Pierre Kalfon - Backmann, the director of the MJC
- François Simon - Doctor Godiveau
- Alex Lacast - Inspector Simbert
- Niels Arestrup - Dominique Allier, the photographer
- Henri Garcin - Le procureur
- Philippe Caubère - Abbot Henning
- Roland Amstutz - M. Muller
- Roland Bertin - Substitut Berthot
- Roland Blanche - Inspector Roc
- Stéphane Bouy - Commissaire Bonnard
- Philippe Brizard - Juge d'instruction in the South
- Gérard Caillaud - Juge d'instruction in the North