Coup de Torchon
(1981)
★ 7 IMDb · 224 votes
Year: 1981
Runtime: 128 мин
Country: France
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Cast: Филипп Нуаре, Изабель Юппер, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Стефан Одран, Eddy Mitchell, Ги Маршан, Michel Beaune, Jean Champion, Виктор Гарривье, Gérard Hernandez
Plot
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.
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.