Dear Inspector

Synopsis

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.

Cast

Annie Girardot

Lise Tanquerelle

Philippe Noiret

Antoine Lemercier

Catherine Alric

Christine Vallier

Hubert Deschamps

Charmille

Paulette Dubost

Mother

Roger Dumas

Marcel Guérin, l'inspecteur

Raymond Gérôme

Head of Criminal Division

Guy Marchand

Beretti

Simone Renant

Suzanne

Georges Wilson

Alexandre Mignonac

Monique Tarbès

Bathroom attendant

Henri Czarniak

L'inspecteur Cascard

Maurice Illouz

L'inspecteur Picot

Georges Riquier

Professeur Pelletier

David Gabison

Le doyen Levergue

Gabriel Jabbour

Medical examiner

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Armelle Pourriche

Little Catherine

Michel Rocher

Le laborantin

Jacques Boudet

L'homme élégant

Anna Gaylor

Antoine's concierge

Crew

Art

• François de Lamothe Art Direction

Costume & Make-Up

• Catherine Leterrier Costume Design

Crew

• Jean-Paul Schwartz Cinematography

Directing

• Philippe de Broca Director

Editing

• Françoise Javet Editor

Production

• Michel Audiard Producer
• Georges Dancigers Producer
• Alexandre Mnouchkine Producer
• Robert Amon Producer

Sound

• Georges Delerue Original Music Composer
• Bernard Bats Sound

Writing

• Jean-Paul Rouland Writer
• Philippe de Broca Adaptation
• Michel Audiard Writer
• Claude Olivier Novel
• Jean-Paul Rouland Novel