A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge against villainous drug dealers. Word comes down from above that the United States feels French authorities have been lax on their arrests of the dealers. A violent action feature finds the harried inspector battling his colleagues as much as the criminal element targeted for extermination.
Acting
Michel Bouquet's exhausted eyes do all the moral heavy lifting.
Direction
Boisset's documentary-style brutality predates French Extremity by decades.
Director
Yves Boisset
Michel Bouquet
L'inspecteur Favenin
Françoise Fabian
Hélène Dassa
Gianni Garko
Dan Rover
Michel Constantin
Viletti
Anne Carrère
Christine
Rufus
Raymond Aulnay
Théo Sarapo
Lupo
Henri Garcin
Georges Duval, dit "Georgy Beausourire"
Pierre Massimi
Robert Dassa
Bernard Fresson
l'inspecteur Barnero
Adolfo Celi
Le commissaire divisionnaire
Marcel Gassouk
Noëlle Leiris
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during France's real moral panic over drug trafficking, reflecting actual tensions between French police and American DEA pressure.
Michel Bouquet, normally cast as bourgeois intellectuals, took this role to break type—his physical transformation shocked French audiences.
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