Allo police

Manu Bonmariage, Belgium, 1987, 16 mm, Format diffusion : 1.33 (SD), 76 & 56 minutes

A police station in a Belgian industrial city, Charleroi. During several months, the director has followed up the preventive work of a couple of policemen. « Hello police? » « Could you come over? »: rows, disputes, complaints, adultery accounts, fights, robberies... Policemen act through prevention, trying to « settle things » between people, some kind of welfare work...

Against the background of this « comedy of manners », violence, suffering, death, robbey, rape, adultery, fright, anguish, confusion – stant out, facing goodwilled « cops » bewildered for knowing which part to play: psychotherapist, welfare worker, justice of the Peace...

• Directed by: Manu Bonmariage
• Screenplay: Manu Bonmariage
• Photography: Manu Bonmariage. Assitant : Marguerite Bavaud
• Sound: Patrick Van Loo
• Image editing: Monique Lebrun
• Languages: FR
• Available formats: Beta Digital, Digital
• Production: CBA, RTBF Charleroi
• Coproduction workshop: CBA
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