CROSSFIRE
synopsis
Drieu is a police officer at the end of his career: weary, broken and tormented. This mysterious B.R.B leader is transferred to an unlikely provincial police station set for demolition within six months, in the heart of an industrial town in an isolated location at the bottom of Berre Lake, beset by pollution and heatwaves. Here, superintendent Vasseur and his team (Jean Ba, Wazeme and Katiha) are apathetic. Nobody believes in their work anymore. Laxness and disillusion prevail, which suits the "purposes" of the local gangsters who have become elusive and all-powerful. Caught between the desire to give up and the need to fight for his survival, Drieu chooses to cling for dear life to the police station logbook, this weighty compendium of statements and urban police operations. Full of petty crimes and cases without litigants, the logbook offers a glimpse of the human misery and desperation of those who have lost their way in life. Everything there seems so insignificant. And yet...
international title: | Crossfire |
original title: | Les Insoumis |
country: | France |
sales agent: | STUDIO TF1 Distribution (ex-Newen Connect) |
year: | 2007 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Claude-Michel Rome |
release date: | FR 11/06/2008 |
screenplay: | Claude-Michel Rome, Olivier Dazat |
cast: | Richard Berry, Zabou Breitman, Pascal Elbé, Aïssa Maïga, Bernard Blancan, Moussa Maaskri |
cinematography by: | Jean-Marc Fabre |
film editing: | Stéphanie Mahet |
art director: | Bertrand Seitz |
costumes designer: | Jean-Daniel Vuillermoz |
music: | Frédéric Porte |
producer: | Philippe Rousselet, Etienne Comar |
production: | Les Films de la Suane, M6 Films, SND |
distributor: | SND (Société Nouvelle de Distribution) Films |