Les Combattants de l’ordre
Lieutenant Masson has three weeks in which to turn students from a police college into anti-riot police worthy of their name. Alternating theory and practical lessons, his mission is to teach fifty trainees, chosen from the French police corps d’élite, the art of combat and of maintaining law and order. Under his strict military-style command, the future riot police have to get used to handling shields and truncheons, giving and receiving blows. They learn to resist teargas, frighten people, keep up a team spirit and, above all, obey orders. Finally, before being entitled to pin on the shoulder stripes which proudly testify to their function, they have to push back stooge demonstrators, whose roles are played by auxiliary policemen…’ (Stéphane Krausz, Michel Démétriadès)
Né en 1965, diplômé de la section image de la Femis en 1992, travaille comme chef opérateur sur deux documentaires d’Agnès Varda, et sur la Conquête de Clichy de Christophe Otzenberger et réalise :
• Une belle affaire, 1993 • La machine, 1994 • Le concert, 1994 • La corvée du dimanche, 1994 • La foire aux célibataires, 1998 • Les Combattants de l’ordre (avec M. Démétriadès), 1997
Ovni Films
Doriane Films
Charlotte Teillard d'Eyry
Michel Démétriadès
Stéphane Krausz