The Young Lieutenant
Le Petit Lieutenant (also released under the title of The Young Lieutenant) is a 2005 French crime drama film directed by Xavier Beauvois. With almost documentary realism, it shows how in a tragic breach of procedure a young married police lieutenant is killed by a suspect and how the head of his squad doggedly tracks down the killer, who is shot dead trying to escape.
Plot
Graduating from police academy as a lieutenant, Antoine chooses a place on a detective squad in a busy quarter of Paris, leaving his young wife in their home town of Le Havre. Newly in charge of the squad is Caroline who, after losing her young son to meningitis, took to the bottle. Now on her own and recovering, she takes an interest in her keen young assistant and in a quiet moment the two even share a joint.
Cast
- Annick Le Goff
- Antoine Chappey
- Bérangère Allaux
- Bruce Myers
- Caroline Champetier
- Dominique de Villepin
- Foued Mansour
- Jacques Perrin
- Jalil Lespert
- Jean-Paul Salomé
- Jérôme Bertin
- Nathalie Baye
- Olivier Schneider
- Patrick Chauvel
- Pierre Aussedat
- Rémy Roubakha
- Riton Liebman
- Roschdy Zem
- Waléra Kanischtscheff
- Xavier Beauvois
- Yaniss Lespert
More details
| author | Cédric Anger Guillaume Bréaud Jean-Eric Troubat Xavier Beauvois |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Paris |
| director | Xavier Beauvois |
| editor | Martine Giordano |
| events | coming to terms with the past criminal investigation police revenge |
| genre | crime drama |
| keywords | arrest build even fly le havre lose police academy prime suspect river under investigation |
| nomination | César Award for Best Actress European Film Award for Best Actress |
| producer | Pascal Caucheteux |
| productionCompany | Why Not Productions |
| publisher | Mars Distribution |
| recordedAt | Nice |