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The Police War
The Police War
Directed by	Robin Davis
Screenplay by	Robin Davis ; Jean-Patrick Manchette ; Jean-Marie Guillaume ; Jacques Labib ; Patrick Laurent
Produced by	Véra Belmont
Starring	Claude Brasseur ; Claude Rich ; Marlène Jobert
Cinematography	Ramón F. Suárez
Edited by	José Pinheiro
Music by	Jean-Marie Sénia
Production; companies	Les Productions Jacques Roitfeld ; Stéphan Films
Distributed by	UGC
Release date	November 14, 1979;
Running time	100 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Box office	$13.5 million

The Police War (French: La guerre des polices) is a French police drama film directed by Robin Davis and starring Claude Brasseur, Claude Rich and Marlène Jobert.^[2] The French title (literally: "the war of the polices") refers to the rivalry between the two divisions of the French police force: the Territorial Brigade and the Anti-Gang Brigade.

Plot

The team of Commissaire Ballestrat from the Territorial Brigade stakes out the hideout of a dangerous criminal named Sarlat. Suddenly, Commissaire Fush and his team from the Anti-Gang Brigade arrive to the site. The ambitious Ballestrat would rather let Sarlat escape than allow the rival team to take credit for the arrest. In the ensuing shootout, Sarlat kills one of Fush's men and flees. From then on, the two teams treat each other with open hostility. The police chief orders Ballestrat to cooperate with the Anti-Gang team. But the two groups would still act separately in their pursuit of Sarlat. Fush becomes close with Marie, one of Ballestrat's team members. She later betrays him by informing her boss of the Anti-Gang's upcoming operation to capture Sarlat's accomplice Manekian. Ballestrat's interference causes a death of an innocent bystander. Fush submits his resignation. Then the massive police ambush against Sarlat misfires, and one of the officers is taken hostage. While the rest of the police prefer to wait the situation out, Fush single-handedly confronts Sarlat, and they are both killed in the resulting stand-off.