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Detective Superintendent (Commissaire Principal) Pierre Niemans (Jean Reno), a well-known investigator, is sent to the fictional small university town of Guernon in the French Alps to investigate a brutal murder and mutilation; the victim's body had been placed in the fetal position, his eyes removed and his hands cut off. The victim was a senior student of the university. Superintendent Niemans begins his investigation by enlisting the help of Fanny Ferreira (Nadia Farès), who is a glaciologist and a student at the university.

 

Meanwhile, Detective Inspector (Lieutenant de Police) and former car thief Max Kerkerian (Vincent Cassel) is in the nearby town of Sarzac investigating the desecration of the grave of a girl who died in 1982, and the theft of her photos from the local primary school. His first suspects, a gang of skinheads, lead him to Guernon, where his investigation collides with that of Superintendent Niemans. As the plot unfolds, Niemans and Kerkerian notice the startling connections between their cases, and the remainder of the film revolves around their combined efforts to solve the mystery and prevent further bloodshed.

 

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** More like A Nazi by ''exactly this'' name. Strong parallels between their eugenics ideology and Nazism are explicitly mentioned.

* [[Compressed Adaptation]]: Compared to the book. In fact, it's so bad that Vincent Casell is on the record saying that the film is almost impossible to understand because the director cut out all the boring parts, which were all the threads that held the plot together.

* [[Enfant Terrible]]

* [[Evil Twin]]

* [[The Film of the Book]]

* [[For Science!]]

* [[Grave Robbing]]

* [[Jean Reno]]

* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]

* [[Not Quite Dead]]

* [[Noodle Incident]]: Niemmans' fear of dogs.

* [[Race Lift]]: Kerkerian was of middle eastern descent in the book. He was also called Karim Abdouf.

** Well,the actor Vincent Cassel could be considered of either remotely middle eastern or hispanic descent.

* [[Red Right Hand]]: {{spoiler|Judith's missing finger.}}

* [[Snow Means Death]]

* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: Judith was disguised as a boy by her mother to escape persecution.

* [[That Came Out Wrong]]: One of the posher students of Guernon boasts with his uni's average IQ levels. He asks Niemans to guess. His answer?

** He meant the room number on the door they had just passed.

* [[They Look Just Like Everyone Else]]: {{spoiler|Remy Callois and Phillip Sertys, the guys in charge of the Eugenics program, were the university librarian and a nurse at the maternity ward.}}

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Kerkerian's two Policiers Nationale.

* [[You Didn't Ask]]: After the fight with the skinheads.

 

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