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Dear Inspector

Dear Inspector

19785.81h 45m

Overview

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 identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.

Directed by Philippe de Broca
Written by Jean-Paul Rouland, Michel Audiard, Claude Olivier
Produced by Georges Dancigers, Alexandre Mnouchkine, Michel Audiard
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Top Cast

Annie Girardot

Annie Girardot

Lise Tanquerelle

Philippe Noiret

Philippe Noiret

Antoine Lemercier

Catherine Alric

Catherine Alric

Christine Vallier

Hubert Deschamps

Hubert Deschamps

Charmille

Paulette Dubost

Paulette Dubost

Mother

Roger Dumas

Roger Dumas

Marcel Guérin, l'inspecteur

Raymond Gérôme

Raymond Gérôme

Head of Criminal Division

Guy Marchand

Guy Marchand

Beretti

Simone Renant

Simone Renant

Suzanne

Georges Wilson

Georges Wilson

Alexandre Mignonac

Themes & Keywords

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About Dear Inspector

Dear Inspector is a comedy film released in 1978 exploring themes of call girl, series of murders, police inspector. Directed by Philippe de Broca, it stars Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Alric. 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 identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.

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