Movie Info: Coup de torchon (1981)

Director: Bertrand Tavernier

Writer: Bertrand Tavernier, Jean Aurenche, Jim Thompson

Genre: Comedy, Comedy Film, Drama

In 1938, Lucien Cordier, a pathetic and humiliated police chief in a French African colony village populated mostly by blacks with some whites, decides he wants a clean slate in life. He is universally disrespected, even by his wife Huguette, and never arrests anyone despite witnessing dirty tricks....