''Cop or Hood'' (french: Flic ou voyou) is a 1979 French
crime
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and
action film
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directed by
Georges Lautner
Georges Lautner (; 24 January 1926 – 22 November 2013) was a French film director and screenwriter, known primarily for his comedies created in collaboration with screenwriter Michel Audiard.
Lautner's ventures into other genres were less ...
. It's loosely based on the novel ''L'Inspecteur de la mer'' by Michel Grisolia.
Plot
Stanislas Borowitz is a divisional commissioner from the IGPN ( Inspection Générale de la Police Nationale) who uses particularly expeditious methods to counteract the "ripoux" (French term for "corrupt cops"). Sent to
Nice
Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative c ...
to struggle against
the Mafia
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and enquire on a murder of a notoriously corrupt commissioner, he changes his identity into a thug named Antonio Cerruti to trigger a gang war between the two biggest local sponsors, Théodore Musard ("l'Auvergnat") and Achille Volfoni ("le Corse"), and discovers a police organization with the mafia of the town. But the corrupt police inspectors Rey and Massard, on the pay of Volfoni, absolutely want to harm him.
Cast
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Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jean-Paul Charles Belmondo (; 9 April 19336 September 2021) was a French actor and producer. Initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s, he was a major French film star for several decades from the 1960s onward. His best known credits ...
... Antonio Cerutti (aka the divisional commissioner Stanislas Borowitz)
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Georges Géret
Georges Géret (18 October 1924 – 7 April 1996) was a French film actor. He appeared in over 80 films between 1954 and 1992. He was born in Lyon, France.
Selected filmography
* ''The Unfrocked One'' (1954) - Un militaire à l'Oflag et à ...
... Théodore Musard ("l'Auvergnat")
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Marie Laforêt
Marie Laforêt (born Maïtena Marie Brigitte Doumenach; 5 October 1939 – 2 November 2019) was a French singer and actress, particularly well known for her work during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1978, she moved to Geneva, and acquired Swiss citize ...
... Edmonde Puget-Rostand
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Jean-François Balmer
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Julie Jézéquel
Julie Jézéquel (born 26 March 1964) is a French actress and writer.
Filmography Actress
Writer
Theater
Author
References
External links
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1964 births
Living people
French film actresses
French television actresses
20th-centu ...
... Charlotte
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Michel Beaune
Michel Beaune (1933–1990) was a French actor.
Filmography
*1960: ''Trapped by Fear'' - Un ami de Paul (uncredited)
*1961: ''Les godelureaux''
*1964: '' Backfire'' - Daniel
*1970: '' The Confession'' - L'avocat
*1970: ''The Time to Die'' - ...
Venantino Venantini
Venantino Venantini (17 April 1930 – 9 October 2018) was an Italian film actor.Charles Gérard
Charles Gérard (born Gérard Adjémian, 1 December 1922 – 19 September 2019)Charles Gérard
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... Cazauban
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Michel Galabru
Michel Louis Edmond Galabru (27 October 19224 January 2016) was a French actor.
Career
Galabru appeared in more than 250 films and worked with directors such as Bertrand Blier, Costa-Gavras, Luc Besson (for '' Subway''), and Jean-Luc Godard. ...
... Commissaire Grimaud
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Philippe Castelli
Philippe Castelli (8 June 1926 – 16 April 2006) was a French film actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1960 and 1992.
Selected filmography
* ''Les Bonnes Femmes'' (1960) - Le régisseur
* '' Wise Guys'' (1961) - Le portier au vernissa ...
Nicolas Vogel
Nicolas Vogel (born in Paris, France, May 27, 1925 - died in Paris September 17, 2006) was an actor and comedian who was featured in numerous films and television shows in the 1960s and 1970s, including ''The Man from Chicago'' (1963), '' Le Gitan' ...