Pour la peau d'un flic

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Pour la peau d'un flic


English	For a Cop's Hide

Directed by	Alain Delon
Screenplay by	Alain Delon Christopher Frank
Based on	Que d'os! by Jean-Patrick Manchette
Produced by	Alain Delon
Starring	Alain Delon Anne Parillaud
Cinematography	Jean Tournier
Release date	1981 (1981)
Language	French
Box office	$17.8 million^[1]

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.^[2]

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 as Haymann / Tarpon
Daniel Ceccaldi as Commissioner Coccioli
Jean-Pierre Darras as Commissioner Chauffard
Xavier Depraz as Kasper
Jacques Rispal as Professor Bachhoffer
Gérard Hérold as Pradier
Pierre Belot as Jude
Annick Alane as Isabelle Pigot
Pascale Roberts as Renée Mouzon
Michel Berreur [fr] as Pérez
Philippe Castelli as Jean le barman
Claire Nadeau as The TV presenter
Brigitte Lahaie as The Nurse
Dominique Zardi as Le petit chauve
Henri Attal as Le type au flipper
Mireille Darc as La Grande sauterelle

References

^ "Pour la peau d\'un flic (1981) - JPBox-Office".
^ Box office information for film at Box Office Story

External links

Pour la peau d'un flic at IMDb

v t e Alain Delon
List of performances
Films directed	Pour la peau d'un flic (1981) Le Battant (1983)
Films produced	Jeff (1969) Borsalino (1970) The Love Mates (1970) Easy, Down There! (1971) Tony Arzenta (1973) Two Men in Town (1973) Borsalino & Co. (1974) Flic Story (1975) The Gypsy (1975) Boomerang (1976) Monsieur Klein (1976) Armaguedon (1977) Death of a Corrupt Man (1977) Le Gang (1977) Man in a Hurry (1977) Attention, the Kids Are Watching (1978) The Medic (1979) Three Men to Kill (1980) Parole de flic (1985) The Passage (1986) Let Sleeping Cops Lie (1988) Dancing Machine (1990) The Return of Casanova (1992)
Miscellaneous	Marković affair "Paroles, paroles"

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