"Police district" (2000) TV series 2000-????

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | unknown

Release Date:

6 September 2000 (France)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Thriller

Cast

Olivier Marchal

...

Commandant Rivière (5 episodes, 2000-2001)

Series Directed by
Olivier Chavarot		(6 episodes, 1999-2000)
Manuel Boursinhac		(3 episodes, 2001)

Series Writing credits
Hugues Pagan		(12 episodes, 1999-2001)
Alban Guitteny		(3 episodes, 1999-2001)

Series Produced by
Hervé Chabalier	....	producer (unknown episodes)
Claude Chelli	....	producer (unknown episodes)

Series Original Music by
Laurent Sauvagnac		(2 episodes, 1999-2002)
Nicolas Bikialo		(unknown episodes)

Series Cinematography by
Martin Legrand		(unknown episodes)

Series Film Editing by
Sabine Emiliani		(unknown episodes)

Series Production Management
Pascal Lamargot	....	production manager (4 episodes, 2000-2002)
Maud Quiffet	....	unit manager trainee (unknown episodes)
Antoine Vierny	....	unit manager (unknown episodes)

Series Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Albin Voulfow	....	second assistant director (3 episodes, 2001)
Anne-Sophie Hervieux	....	first assistant director (2 episodes, 2001)
Alain Braconnier	....	third assistant director (unknown episodes)

Series Sound Department
Frédéric Maury	....	supervising sound editor (1 episode, 2000)
Jean-Baptiste Faure	....	boom operator (unknown episodes)
Olivier Le Vacon	....	sound (unknown episodes)
Jérôme Rabu	....	sound assistant (unknown episodes)
Laurent Zeilig	....	sound mixer (unknown episodes)

Series Camera and Electrical Department
Alexandre Ricco	....	grip (3 episodes, 2002)
Raphael Jourdan	....	key grip (unknown episodes)
Arnaud Lemorillon	....	still photographer (unknown episodes)
Olivier Mandrin	....	gaffer (unknown episodes)

Production Companies

• Capa Production
• M6 Métropole Télévision (France)

Distributors

• XIII Bis Records (2005) (France) (DVD)

Runtime:

52 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Company:

Capa Production

Prozac by the oil barrel

At long last a serie which doesn't depict life in a police station as a happy endless chase against the bad guys.

Here, life is a bit desperate; people in the police team depicted in this serie clearly have a social problem (they sometimes look like as social as a gang of grizzly bears; the Rivière/Frane relationship is emblematic I think); but is this social problem theirs only, or the problem of the society as a whole?

One of the great qualities of this serie is that it doesn't attempt to hide between political correctness (usual US cop serie defect) or overenthusiastic positivism (usual French cop serie defect); in Police District, it's clear that the street is filthy, and that a member of the police has to chase the villains in the dirt of villains' world.

Another is it has a refreshingly different set of inhibitions as the usual mix of cop series (70% US - 30% FR over here); people drink, people swear (may be great for foreigners willing to learn the colloquial aspects of French...), the procedures are different (Latin rather than Anglo-Saxon judicial system), etc.

In short, I just wish there were more than a handful of episodes per season, and I look forward to season four!