The Woman Cop (French: La Femme flic) is a 1980 French film directed by Yves Boisset that stars Miou-Miou as an impetuous young police inspector whose disregard for the constraints under which police and prosecutors have to work leads to her dismissal.
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Plot
After publicly slapping a lawyer who she felt had let her down, Corinne Levasseur is transferred from the southern port city of Toulon and goes by train to a small mining town in the far north. Initially put on office work, she is then given what in the eyes of the local chief of police is an unimportant investigation. This leads her to uncover a network of child pornography and prostitution involving members and employees of the most important family of the town. She struggles with her boss and the public prosecutor to indict individuals against whom she has good evidence and witnesses, but they refuse to back her against such locally powerful people. On instructions from Paris, her chief hands her a letter of resignation to sign and with her bags she takes a taxi to the railway station.
Cast and roles
Miou-Miou - Inspector Corinne Levasseur
Jean-Marc Thibault - Commissaire Porel
Leny Escudéro - Diego Cortez
Jean-Pierre Kalfon - Backmann, the director of the MJC
François Simon - Doctor Godiveau
Alex Lacast - Inspector Simbert
Niels Arestrup - Dominique Allier, the photographer
Henri Garcin - Le procureur
Philippe Caubère - Abbot Henning
Roland Amstutz - M. Muller
Roland Bertin - Substitut Berthot
Roland Blanche - Inspector Roc
Stéphane Bouy - Commissaire Bonnard
Philippe Brizard - Juge d'instruction in the South
Gérard Caillaud - Juge d'instruction in the North