Coup de torchon

Here's a film that seems to ask: what if a cop was also a total loser? In French colonial Africa, a police chief snaps and begins murdering seemingly random people. The film's satire is broad, pitched somewhere between scorn and farce.

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Bertrand Tavernier directed Coup de torchon in 1981. See Bertrand Tavernier's full filmography, where to start with Bertrand Tavernier, or where to go after you've seen everything by Bertrand Tavernier.

Coup de torchon was released in 1981 (FR original-language production), with a runtime of 128 minutes.