Police is a 1985 French film, starring Gérard Depardieu

Gérard Depardieu

Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is a French actor and filmmaker. He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite and has twice won the César Award for Best Actor...

, Sophie Marceau

Sophie Marceau

Sophie Marceau is a French actress director, screenwriter, and author. She has appeared in 38 films. As a teenager, Marceau achieved popularity with her debut films La boum and La boum 2 , receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress...

 and Sandrine Bonnaire

Sandrine Bonnaire

Sandrine Bonnaire is a French actress, who has appeared in more than 40 films including Hollywood movies.Bonnaire was born in the town of Gannat, Allier, in the Auvergne region. She was born into a working-class family, the seventh of eleven children. Her acting career began at the age of 16 in...

. It was directed by Maurice Pialat

Maurice Pialat

Maurice Pialat was a French film director, screenwriter and actor noted for the rigorous and unsentimental style of his films...

 and written by Catherine Breillat

Catherine Breillat

Catherine Breillat is a French filmmaker, novelist and Professor of Auteur Cinema at the European Graduate School.-Life and career:Breillat was born in Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, but grew up in Niort...

.

Plot

When Mangin, a jaded French

French National Police

The National Police , formerly the Sûreté Nationale, is one of two national police forces and the main civil law enforcement agency of France, with primary jurisdiction in cities and large towns. The other main agency is the military Gendarmerie, with primary jurisdiction in smaller towns and rural...

 police inspector (Depardieu) starts to investigate a Tunis

Tunis

Tunis is the capital of both the Tunisian Republic and the Tunis Governorate. It is Tunisia's largest city, with a population of 728,453 as of 2004; the greater metropolitan area holds some 2,412,500 inhabitants....

ian drug ring, he finds his own morals being clouded by his interactions with the criminals and especially Noria (Marceau), the girlfriend of one of them.

Cast

• Gérard Depardieu
  Gérard Depardieu
  Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is a French actor and filmmaker. He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite and has twice won the César Award for Best Actor...
  
   as Louis Vincent Mangin
• Sophie Marceau
  Sophie Marceau
  Sophie Marceau is a French actress director, screenwriter, and author. She has appeared in 38 films. As a teenager, Marceau achieved popularity with her debut films La boum and La boum 2 , receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress...
  
   as Noria
• Richard Anconina
  Richard Anconina
  Richard Anconina is a French actor.-Filmography:*1977 : Comment se faire réformer directed by Philippe Clair*1978 : Les Réformés se portent bien*1979 : Démons de midi directed by Christian Paureilhe...
  
   as Lambert
• Pascale Rocard as Marie Vedret
• Sandrine Bonnaire
  Sandrine Bonnaire
  Sandrine Bonnaire is a French actress, who has appeared in more than 40 films including Hollywood movies.Bonnaire was born in the town of Gannat, Allier, in the Auvergne region. She was born into a working-class family, the seventh of eleven children. Her acting career began at the age of 16 in...
  
   as Lydie
• Frank Karaoui as René

Accolades

The film was nominated for a César

César Award

The César Award is the national film award of France, first given out in 1975. The nominations are selected by the members of the Académie des arts et techniques du cinéma....

 for Best Editing

César Award for Best Editing

The César Award for Best Editing is one of the annual César Awards given by the French Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema. Eligible films are usually in the French language.-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:...

 in 1986

1986 in film

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, as well as a Best Actor

César Award for Best Actor

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Actor .-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:...

 nomination for Depardieu. Depardieu also won the Best Actor award from the Venice Film Festival

Venice Film Festival

The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the...

in 1985 for his performance of the conflicted Mangin.