Jean-Paul Muel

Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris's demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars making sure once again that the owners don't bend the rules too far. Weiss knows he's between a rock and hard place: it's obvious that criminal gangs run rampant in his special domain, and even more obvious that they're protected by higher-ups in the department.

From co-writer/producer Luc Besson ('La Femme Nikita', 'Léon: The Professional', 'The Fifth Element') comes the sharp and sumptuous sci-fi/comedy/thriller 'Kamikaze'. Michel Galabru ('Subway') is Albert. He’s old, bored, batty and unemployed…but brilliant with computers. Albert embarks on a mission to get rid of the people he hates most—the televised kind—and invents a way to kill TV announcers, on air, from the comfort of his own home. Police are baffled, but Richard Bohringer as Inspector Romain Pascot dedicates himself to the chase. Also starring Dominique Lavanant, the cult ’80s classic 'Kamikaze' bursts with slick widescreen visuals by cinematographer Jean-François Robin ('L’Amour Braque') and pulsing musical soundscapes by composer Éric Serra ('GoldenEye'), complementing the explosive satire on couch-potato culture.

Knight Godefroy has to return to our time from 1023 to get back the sacred jewels that Jacquouille has taken to the 20th century.