''Pour la peau d'un flic'' (English: ''For a Cop's Hide'') is a 1981 French crime-thriller film starring and directed by
Alain Delon. It was Delon's directorial debut.
It had admissions of 2,377,084 in France.
Box office information for film
at Box Office Story
Plot
Choucas, a former police detective, is commissioned by an elderly lady to investigate the disappearance of her blind daughter, Marthe. The lady is murdered. Assisted by retired commissioner Haymann, and by secretary Charlotte, investigator Choucas attempts to unravel the thread of a fraud involving various police services and drug traffickers. During the investigation Choucas is attacked in the apartment of the victim by a certain Pradier; he kills him but his accomplice manages to escape. Back home, Choucas escapes an ambush tended by a certain commissioner Madrier and kills him, with the result of ending up in the viewfinder not only of a mysterious gang, but also of the police.
The story proceeds with a succession of events, including the kidnapping of Charlotte, saved at the last minute by her employer. Choucas will discover that he was maneuvered by the police commissioner Coccioli against his dishonest colleagues, and will risk to leave his life in an attempt to discover the truth and to strip the gang: it will be saved in extremis by policemen.
Cast
* Alain Delon as Choucas
* Anne Parillaud as Charlotte
* Michel Auclair
Michel Auclair (born Vladimir Vujović, sr-cyr, Владимир Вујовић; 14 September 1922 – 7 January 1988) was an actor of Serbian and French ancestry, known best for his roles in French cinema.
Auclair was born to a Serbian father ...
as Haymann / Tarpon
* Daniel Ceccaldi
Daniel Ceccaldi (25 July 1927 – 27 March 2003) was a French actor.
He was born in Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, France. The mild-mannered Daniel Ceccaldi is famous as Claude Jade's father ''Lucien Darbon'' in François Truffaut's movies ''Stolen Kis ...
as Commissioner Coccioli
* Jean-Pierre Darras
Jean-Pierre Darras (1927–1999) was a French actor.
Filmography
1927 births
1999 deaths
Deaths from cancer in France
French film directors
French monarchists
Male actors from Paris
People from Val-de-Marne
French male film actors
...
as Commissioner Chauffard
* Xavier Depraz as Kasper
* Jacques Rispal
Jacques Rispal (1 August 1923 – 9 February 1986) was a French film actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1952 and 1986.
Selected filmography
* '' Crimson Curtain'' (1952)
* ''A Man Named Rocca'' (1961) - (uncredited)
* ''Five Miles to ...
as Professor Bachhoffer
* Gérard Hérold
Gérard Hérold (Mulhouse, 10 September 1939 - Paris, 19 August 1993) was a French actor, appearing in several films, TV series and on theatre.
Biography
Gérard Hérold was born in Alsace in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) on 10 September 1935. He studied ...
as Pradier
* Pierre Belot as Jude
* Annick Alane as Isabelle Pigot
* Pascale Roberts
Pascale is a common Francophone given name, the feminine of the name Pascal. The same spelling is also an Italian form of the masculine name ''Pascal'', and an Italian surname derived from the given name.
Pascale derives from the Latin ''pas ...
as Renée Mouzon
* as Pérez
* 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 verniss ...
as Jean le barman
* Claire Nadeau
Claire Nadeau (born 1 June 1945) is a French actress.
Theater
Filmography
References
External links
*
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French film actresses
20th-century French actresses
21st-century French actresses
Actresses from P ...
as The TV presenter
* Brigitte Lahaie
Brigitte Lahaie (born Brigitte Lucie Jeanine Van Meerhaeghe; 12 October 1955) is a French radio talk show host, mainstream film actress and former pornographic actress. She performed in erotic films from 1976 through 1980 and is a member of the ...
as The Nurse
* Dominique Zardi
Dominique Zardi (born Emile Jean Cohen-Zardi; 2 March 1930 – 13 December 2009) was a French actor from Paris. He acted in more than 200 feature films, including '' Fantômas'' with Louis De Funès and Jean Marais. He died of cancer at the age of ...
as Le petit chauve
* Henri Attal
Henri Attal (1936 in Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populat ...
as Le type au flipper
* Mireille Darc as La Grande sauterelle
References
External links
*
1981 films
French crime thriller films
1980s crime thriller films
Films based on French novels
1981 directorial debut films
Alain Delon
1980s French films
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