The Young Lieutenant (2005)
Le Petit Lieutenant
A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.
- Date of release
- 2005-08-31
- TMDB
- 6.7 / 10 (103)
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Director
- Xavier Beauvois
Casting
- Nathalie Baye — Commandant Vaudieu
- Jalil Lespert — Antoine Derouère
- Roschdy Zem — Solo
- Antoine Chappey — Louis Mallet
- Jacques Perrin — Le juge Serge Clermont
- Xavier Beauvois — Nicolas Morbé
- Patrick Chauvel — Le lieutenant Patrick Belval
- Jean-Charles Dumay — Juge d'instruction
- Bérangère Allaux — Julie Derouère, la femme d'Antoine
- Wieslaw Puzio — Kaminsky
- Rémy Roubakha — Marchand
- Jean Lespert — M. Derouère, le père d'Antoine
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Nice
- Awards: 0 · Nominations: 2
Le Petit Lieutenant is a 2005 French crime drama film directed by Xavier Beauvois. With almost documentary realism, it shows how in a tragic breach of procedure a young married police lieutenant is killed by a suspect and how the head of his squad doggedly tracks down the killer, who is shot dead trying to escape.
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