36 Quai des Orf%C3%A8vres (film)
36 Quai des Orfvres also known as 36th Precinct and Departmentis a 2004 French film directed by Olivier Marchal and starring Daniel Auteuil and Grard Depardieu. The film takes place in Paris, where two cops Auteuil and Depardieu are competing for the vacant seat of chief of the Paris Criminal police while involved in a search for a gang of violent thieves. The film is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spentyears in the French police. The story is loosely inspired from real events which occurred during the 1980s in France see the gang des postiches arrest. The film was nominated for eight Csar Awards.
Vrinks is a good investigative detective with a loyal cadre of detectives and officers, as well as a stable of unsavory informants he has cultivated over the years. Klein, who has questionable ethics, is not so accomplished. Vrinks also helps people, in particular a prostitute who was raped and beaten by a criminal, Bruno Ivan Franek, who was robbing the bar that she is employed at. Vrinks and his team kidnap Bruno, and drive him out to a forest for punishment the gangster is stripped naked and given a mock execution, before being pushed into an open grave and warned to never go near her again. Unfortunately, Vrinks methods catch up with him when he is tricked by Silien Roschdy Zem, an incarcerated informant on day release, into being the unwitting getaway driver in the murder of one of Siliens criminal colleagues the gangsters testimony had sent Silien to prison. However, the assassinated gangster was also one of Kleins informants. In a quid pro quo exchange of providing Silien with an alibi and to buy Vrinks silence, he tells the detective where the armouredcar gang is hiding.Vrinks and his team stake out the factory, with Kleins team acting as backup. But when they are on the verge of catching all the robbers after patient planning and surveillance, Klein ignores procedure and radio orders, and drunkenly comes out of hiding. The gang use this to spark a firefight, which results in the death of Vrinks best friend and the kidnapping of a detective as a hostage. ........
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