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Dear Inspector(1978)
Status: Released
Date: 1978-01-18
59%
85 Votes
Time: 1h 45m
Overview:
When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.
Languages: French.
Countries:
France
ProductionCompanies:
Les Films Ariane
Mondex Films
Movie: Dear Inspector
Top 10 Billed Cast
Annie Girardot
Lise Tanquerelle
Philippe Noiret
Antoine Lemercier
Catherine Alric
Christine Vallier
Hubert Deschamps
Charmille
Paulette Dubost
Mother
Roger Dumas
Marcel Guérin, l'inspecteur
Raymond Gérôme
Head of Criminal Division
Guy Marchand
Beretti
Simone Renant
Suzanne
Georges Wilson
Alexandre Mignonac
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Overview
When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.
Release Date
1978-01-18
Average
5.9
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