The Crimson Rivers Les Rivières Pourpres (2000) Mathieu Kassovitz, Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Farès, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Parisian murder detective commissioner Pierre Niemans is called to Gueron, a self-sufficient, prestigious university in a mountain valley, to investigate the murder on 32-year old professor and librarian Rémy Caillois, whose corpse was found 50 meters high on a steep mountain side, naked, horribly covered in bruises and bleeding wounds …

Pierre Niémans, un commissaire aux méthodes musclées, est envoyé à Guernon, ville universitaire de l'Isère, pour élucider un meurtre atroce : un homme a été découvert nu, mutilé, coincé dans une paroi rocheuse en position foetale. Qui est l'auteur de cette mise en scène macabre ? Parallèlement, dans sa commune du Lot, le jeune lieutenant Karim Abdouf a de quoi s'occuper : l'école primaire a été visitée et le tombeau d'un enfant profané…

Following the Guernon case in the mid 2000s, captain Pierre Niémans was transferred to the head of the Central Office against violent crime (OCCS). This new confidential unit deals with the most complex cases, where the clues are few and where serial murders must be resolved as quickly as possible. It is during a particularly difficult mission that Niémans stumbles upon his best pupil and spiritual daughter, Camille Delaunay.