
Coup de Torchon
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Release Date
11/4/1981Runtime
128 minsOverview
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
FrenchBudget
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A darkly comic descent into violence as a humiliated colonial police chief methodically eliminates everyone who's wronged him, mixing savage satire with genuine menace and moral rot.
Mood
TenseDefiantBleak
Themes
CorruptionPowerColonialismRevengeIdentity
Tone
Satirical
Pacing
Steady
Look
NaturalisticHigh-contrast
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Graphic violenceRacial violence

Philippe Noiret
Lucien Cordier

Isabelle Huppert
Rose Mercaillou

Jean-Pierre Marielle
Le Peron

Stéphane Audran
Huguette Cordier

Eddy Mitchell
Nono

Guy Marchand
Marcel Chavasson
Irène Skobline
Anne, l'institutrice

Michel Beaune
Vanderbrouck

Jean Champion
Le curé

Victor Garrivier
Marcaillou

Gérard Hernandez
Leonelli

Abdoulaye Diop
Fête Nat
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