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Gomez & Tavarès (original title)
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Two dirty cops decide to extort a lord mobster using an account book they found during the investigation of a murder case.

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Lt. Carlos Gomez
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Lt. Maxime "Max" Tavarès
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Paulina
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Tonton
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Gina
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Commissaire Cagnoty
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Izenberg
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Silvio Baginorelli
Eléonora Donde ...
Catherine Gomez
Tony Amoni ...
St Jean, le Rasta
Guy Amram ...
Rocco
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Marco
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Brahim Aimad ...
Francky (as Brabra)
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Nicolas Darochard
Tomasz Bialkowski
Laetitia Colombani
Doc Gynéco ...
Le videur
Kamel Ferrat
Maïmouna Gueye
Philippe Julia ...
Policeman
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Un passager de la BMW
Nikita Lespinasse
Alain Peyrollaz
Alexandre Prince ...
Georges
Thimothée Prince ...
Anthony
Tefa ...
José
Clarisse Tennessy ...
Femme bande St Jean Rasta
Matthieu Touboul
David Walters
Sophie Zhang

Directed by

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Gilles Paquet-Brenner

Written by

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Renaud Bendavid ... (writer)
 
Gilles Paquet-Brenner ... (writer)

Produced by

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Stéphane Marsil ... producer
Alain Peyrollaz ... line producer

Music by

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David Moreau

Cinematography by

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Denis Rouden

Editing by

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Bertrand Collard

Editorial Department

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Olivier Dassonville ... telecine colorist
Cécile Therond ... second editor

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Gigi Akoka
Antonin Dedet

Production Design by

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Alain Veyssier

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Veronique Bataille
Sandrine Weill

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Antoine Amador ... key hair stylist
Annabel Diart ... additional makeup artist
Paillette ... key makeup artist
Jimmy Springard ... assistant hair stylist

Production Management

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Jerome Albertini ... unit manager
Mickaëla Degui ... unit manager trainee
Nicolas Devillers ... assistant production manager
Marie-Line Lafont ... post-production manager
Nicolas Petris ... unit manager trainee
Clément Sentilhes ... production manager
Charles Zemer ... location manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Philippe Bourdais ... first assistant director
Alain Peyrollaz ... second unit director (uncredited)

Art Department

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Edouard Beux ... assistant art director
Farid Kermici ... storyboard artist
Lionel Mathis ... carpenter
François Violland ... assistant decorator

Sound Department

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Karim Belfitah ... sound
Laurent Chassaigne ... re-recording mixer
Stéphane de Rocquigny ... re-recording mixer (as Stéphane De Rocquigny)
Antoine Deflandre ... sound
Cédric Genet ... sound assistant
Anne Gibourg ... sound assistant
Mathias Leone ... foley editor
Vincent Maloumian ... foley assistant
Lionel Montabord ... sound editor
Edouard Murcier ... adr supervisor
Gadou Naudin ... foley artist
Olivier Villette ... sound assistant
Olivier Walczak ... sound editor

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Guy Monbillard ... special effects technician
François Philippi ... special effects
Olivier Zenenski ... special effects

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Laurent Desbrueres ... colorist

Stunts

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Alain Bour ... stunts
Oumar Diaoure ... stunt double
Hervé Décalion ... stunt coordinator
Thierry Guerrib ... stunt double
Jean-Benoit Guillon ... stunts
Jean-Claude Joly ... stunt double
Antoine Lomonaco ... assistant stunt coordinator
Franck Merenda ... stunt double
Laurent Mulot ... stunts
Didier Napolitano ... stunts
Stéphane Orsolani ... stunt double

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Eric Bornes ... camera operator
Didier Bourel ... electrician
Jean-Baptiste Chesnais ... assistant camera
Serge Dell'Amico ... camera operator
Bruno Durand ... key grip
Melissa Garcia ... loader
Jérôme Godard ... trainee electrician
Thibault Grabherr ... still photographer
Olivier Joudiau ... grip
Michel Lebray ... electrician
Sophie Lemaire ... first assistant camera
Lionel Pedro ... assistant camera
Catherine Pujol ... camera operator: second unit
Alexandre Ricco ... grip
Sébastien Saadoun ... assistant camera
François Vigon ... camera loader
Pascal Villanueva ... generator operator

Casting Department

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Marc Robert ... casting assistant

Location Management

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Jerome Albertini ... location manager
Stéphan Ripoll ... location scout
Charles Zemer ... location manager

Script and Continuity Department

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Virginia Bach ... script supervisor

Additional Crew

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Thierry Chapat ... production accountant
Fabien Courage ... assistant to unit manager
Laurence Desmasures ... assistant to unit manager
Marc Leroyer ... armorer
Christophe Maratier ... armorer
Harmel Sbraire ... coach: actors

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Plot Summary

In Marseille, the lazy and dirty police Detective Maxime "Max" Tavarès is assigned by Commissaire Cagnoty to work with Detective Carlos Gomez, who has just been transferred from Paris. Gomez has problem to accept the procedures of the corrupt Max and they investigate the apparent suicide of the accountant Lucino. The efficient Gomez finds a four leaf clover into Lucino's nose and they seek out his daughter, the stripper Paulina Lucino, and who might be the killer. They stumble with two criminals in front of her building and they arrest them. When a hit-man posing of lawyer kills the two men in the district, Gomez and Max conclude that there is an informer in the precinct. Meanwhile they contact Paulina and she asks for protection and a painting of her mother that is on the wall of her father's apartment. Meanwhile Max is pressed by the Internal Affairs to help in the investigation of his partner, who lives in a fancy and expensive house with his wife, two sons and his sister Gina and is more corrupt then him. When they find an account book in Lucino's safe, Paulina is the only one that can decipher the document. However Max and Gomez decide to use the document to extort the powerful mobster lord Silvio Baginorelli) and raise money. Will they succeed in their intent? Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Also Known As
  • Payoff (United States)
  • Payoff (World-wide, English title)
  • Payoff - Die Abrechnung (Germany)
  • Step on It! (Sweden)
  • Pay Off (Greece)
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  • 109 min
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Box Office

Opening Weekend France $2,603,852, 13 May 2003

Did You Know?

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Goofs On the news report on TV at the end, the French word "trafic" is written the English way in the middle of a sentence in French: "traffic de drogue". See more »
Movie Connections Followed by Gomez & Tavarès, la suite (2007). See more »
Soundtracks Hôtel Comissariat See more »

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