(Coup de torchon) starring
Philippe Noiret
Isabella Huppert
Bertrand Tavernier 's black comedy thriller is set in French West
Africa in 1938. Easy-going police chief Lucien Cordier puts up with a hostile wife, obstructive bureaucrats, abusive pimps and even hesitates to intervene in a violent quarrel between his mistress and her husband. Then one day he finds an unorthodox way of exacting savage retribution.
Screenplay by JEAN AURENCHE and BERTRAND TAVERNIER from the novel Pop 1280 by JIM THOMPSON
Produced by ADOLPHE VIEZZI
Directed by BERTRAND TAVERNIER
(A French film with English subtitles. First showing on British television)
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