
Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the underworld.

Claude Brasseur
Commissioner Jacques Fush

Marlène Jobert
Marie Garcin

Claude Rich
Commissioner Ballestrat

Georges Staquet
Millard

Jean-François Stévenin
Capati

Etienne Chicot
Larue
David Jalil
Djalloud

Gérard Desarthe
Hector Sarlat

Jean Rougerie
Mermoz

Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Marc
Jacques Lalande
Pralin

Catherine Rétoré
Artist

Rufus
Le Garrec, chicken farmer

Philippe Villiers
Prostitute boy

Roger Miremont
Lagrange

Franck-Olivier Bonnet
René

Albert Dray
Francis, Sarlat's accomplice

Féodor Atkine
Serge Mannékian, accomplice of Sarlat

Ludmila Mikaël
Judge François

François Périer
Colombani, Chief of police
Robin Davis
Jean-Marie Guillaume, Jacques Labib
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