The Young Lieutenant
OT: Le petit lieutnant
Xavier Beauvois // France, 2005
Fiction Feature // FF2011
Story
When a fresh young police academy graduate from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure world of the Parisian homicide squad, his schoolteacher wife is reluctant to go with him. He moves into a rooming house that caters to single cops as he embraces his fellow officers as an extended family. He becomes close to an Arab officer and his boss, a very professional but lonely, middle-aged female detective who is also a recovering alcoholic.
Director
Xavier Beauvois, (*1967) works as an actor, director and screenwriter. His last feature Of Gods and Men (2010) received the César for Best Film and was nominated for the Foreign Academy Award.Trailer
Info
Le petit lieutnant
Fiction Feature
French
Eyes on Paris//FF2011
France
2005
110 min
OV
Xavier Beauvois
Xavier Beauvois, Guillaume Bréaud
Nathalie Baye, Jalil Lespert, Roschdy Zem, Antoine Chappey
Pascal Caucheteux
Caroline Champetier
Martine Giordano
Alain Tchilinguirian
Arsenal Filmverleih GmbH
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