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Coup de torchon
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Overview

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7.7/10   1,789 votes
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Release Date:
4 November 1981 (France) more
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Plot:
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)... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 wins & 10 nominations more
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I don't think this was meant to be a comedy. more (20 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Philippe Noiret ... Lucien Cordier

Isabelle Huppert ... Rose Mercaillou
Jean-Pierre Marielle ... Le Peron et son frère L'adjudant Georges Le Peron
Stéphane Audran ... Huguette Cordier
Eddy Mitchell ... Nono - l'amant demeuré d'Huguette
Guy Marchand ... Marcel Chavasson
Irène Skobline ... Anne - la nouvelle institutrice
Michel Beaune ... Vanderbrouck - un nouveau riche arrogant
Jean Champion ... Priest
Victor Garrivier ... Mercaillou
Gérard Hernandez ... Leonelli
Abdoulaye Diop ... Fête Nat - le serviteur noir de Lucien
Daniel Langlet ... Paulo - un flic larvaire
François Perrot ... Le colonel Tramichel
Raymond Hermantier ... L'aveugle
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Clean Slate (USA)
Clean Up (UK)
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128 min
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Factual errors: The movie begins with a scene during a total eclipse of the sun. Between 1933 (Hitler comes to power) and 1939 (invasion of France), no path of totality from any solar eclipse touched French West Africa. more
Quotes:
Lucien Cordier: We've got to laugh in this world, or else we'd shoot ourselves. more
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Featured in "Zomergasten: (#6.3)" (1993) more

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4 out of 9 people found the following review useful.
I don't think this was meant to be a comedy., 21 April 2002
10/10
Author: the_module from Minneapolis

I watched this movie without reading any prior description of it. I thought this was an excellent film - very philosophical. I never once thought of it as a comedy until I read the video box after watching the tape. Now I come here and see people saying that it wasn't funny. Well, I think that possibly it was just marketed incorrectly and it quite possibly was not intended as comedy at all. Keep that in mind, but do see this movie if you appreciate thoughtful cinema.

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