A murder detective must follow the footsteps of a brutal killer within the secrets of a classist college.A murder detective must follow the footsteps of a brutal killer within the secrets of a classist college.A murder detective must follow the footsteps of a brutal killer within the secrets of a classist college.
- Awards
- 1 win & 6 nominations
Nadia Farès
- Fanny Ferreira
- (as Nadia Fares)
- …
Nicky Naudé
- Skinhead #2
- (as Nicky Naude)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaVincent Cassel broke his nose while filming the fight scene with the skinheads.
- GoofsAlmost at the end of the movie, an EMT is putting an oxygen mask on one of the survivors. Blood is visible on the mask before it comes in contact with the blood on the survivor's face.
- Quotes
Fanny Ferreira: [descending into the crevasse] Welcome to the time machine, Commissaire.
- Crazy creditsThe Gaumont Films logo used is the 90s version (a trail of Gaumont logos opening up to a space with the current logo). A crimson river runs through the trail, leading to the space background at the end being shaded red.
- SoundtracksVirtual Skinfighters
Composed and Performed by David Salsedo, Stéphane Daurs (as Stephane Daurs)
[Performed by] Silmarils
(c) 2000 Editions Musicales Editions La Marguerite - Legende Enterprises
(p) 2000 Production Legende Enterprises - Gaumont
Featured review
Stunning thriller, good story and characters, marred by badly thought-out finale
Echoes of "The Boys From Brazil" and "Name of the Rose" in this fast-moving, gorgeously-set (small alpine towns near Grenoble) French thriller, which has a really nasty conspiracy in a closed community as an underlying subplot. Two interleaved storylines involve two detectives in towns 100 km apart. Young, feisty Kerkerian (Cassel) is investigating the desecration of the tomb of a young girl. Meanwhile, supersleuth Niemans (Reno) is drafted in from Paris to assist local gendarmes in solving a nasty torture-murder of an academic at a small private University. More bodies turn up, suspects become victims, and eventually the paths of the two cops cross. Visually utterly beautiful, particularly the College, the Library, and the glacier/ice tunnel scenes. Characters strongly drawn and sympathetic. One pretty straight fight scene, little dwelling on active perpetration of violence, but much lingering on the unpleasantly gory aftermath. This is particularly the case with the rather gratuitous opening sequence, which is overdone relative to the rest of the film. My main cavil involves the poor ending, where a last-minute surprise twist creates more loose ends than it ties up. Nevertheless, so watchable that this one gets 9/10.
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- agc110
- Aug 12, 2001
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Box office
- Budget
- $14,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $594,966
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $111,026
- Jan 28, 2001
- Gross worldwide
- $60,103,680
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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