Dear Inspector (Tendre poulet) (1977)

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Directed by

Philippe de Broca

Starring (View all)

Annie Girardot
Lise Tanquerelle

Philippe Noiret
Antoine Lemercier

Catherine Alric
Christine Vallier

Hubert Deschamps
Charmille

Paulette Dubost
Mère / Mother

Roger Dumas
Marcel Guérin, l'inspecteur

Raymond Gérôme
Le chef de la division criminelle / Director of Criminal Division

Guy Marchand
Beretti

Written by (View all)

Jean-Paul Rouland

Philippe de Broca
(adaptation)

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Description: Romance in the prime of life. 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 identi ... (more)

Release date: 18 January 1978