Your family disappears. The kidnapper's a psycho. You're a cop with everything to lose.
Thomas Crosky, known as Cross, a lonely policeman, learns that his wife, daughter and sister-in-law have been kidnapped by a criminal who has escaped from a psychiatric hospital.
Acting
Sardou's sweating, trembling breakdown of a tough guy unraveling.
Direction
Setbon's claustrophobic Parisian underworld, all neon and desperation.
Director
Philippe Setbon
Michel Sardou
Thomas Crosky, dit Cross
Roland Giraud
Eli Cantor
Marie-Anne Chazel
Catherine Crosky
Stéphane Jobert
Jacques Kester
Patrick Bauchau
Simon Leenhardt
Jean Barney
Le commissaire Regnier
Louba Guertchikoff
Diane Darney
Arnold Boiseau
Farrel
Gérard Zalcberg
Georges 'Rudi' Rudicek
Maxime Leroux
Sandro
Sotha
Princesse, la prostituée au commissariat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of France's 1980s 'polar' boom—gritty crime films reacting to American noir but with distinctly Gallic miserabilism.
Sardou was primarily a singer; this rare dramatic role was reportedly a personal obsession. He never acted again.
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