Coup de torchon

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1981-11-04

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France

Runtime:

128 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (3427 Reviews)

Director:

Bertrand Tavernier

Genres:

Comedy Crime Drama

Cast:

Philippe Noiret Isabelle Huppert Jean-Pierre Marielle Stèphane Audran

Writer:

Jean Aurenche

Bertrand Tavernier

Jim Thompson (novel)

Fullplot:

1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone (including his wife Huguette) humiliates him. He never arrests anyone and looks at elsewhere when a dirty trick occurs. But one day, he turns into a machiavellian exterminating angel.

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