A police superintendent, after 25 years of a flawless professional career, is arrested by internal affairs for 4 days, before being indicted for criminal conspiracy, drug trafficking, theft and embezzlement by the magistrate in charge.
Acting
Patrick Catalifo's collapse from smug to shattered.
Direction
Marchal's documentary-style interrogation sequences.
Writing
Dialogue that makes guilt sound like office politics.
Director
Olivier Marchal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on real 2011 French police corruption scandals that rocked Lyon, making the procedural details uncomfortably authentic.
Marchal cast his own wife Catherine as the magistrate—reportedly to capture genuine domestic tension in their adversarial scenes.
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