Polar (1984)

  • NR
  • 03/21/1984 (FR)
  • Crime, Thriller
  • 1h 37m

Overview

This film noir tends to stay within very conventional plot lines, as the narration by the main protagonist, private detective Eugene Tarpon Jean-François Balmer, recites a dreary litany of how he wanted to chuck his profession until an attractive woman shows up asking him to investigate the murder of her roommate, a porno star. Soon Tarpon is up to his neck in trouble: the police, gangsters, and the victim's lover are all out to get him.

Jacques Bral

Director, Writer

Jean-Patrick Manchette

Novel

Cast

Jean-François Balmer's headshot

Jean-François Balmer

Eugène Tarpon
Sandra Montaigu's headshot

Sandra Montaigu

Charlotte Le Dantex
Pierre Santini's headshot

Pierre Santini

Coccioli
Roland Dubillard's headshot

Roland Dubillard

Jean-Baptiste Haymann
Claude Chabrol's headshot

Claude Chabrol

Théodore Lyssenko

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