Directed by:
Bertrand TavernierCinematography:
Pierre-William GlennComposer:
Philippe SardeCast:
Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Stéphane Audran, Eddy Mitchell, Irène Skobline, Guy Marchand, Michel Beaune, Mamadou Dioumé (more)Plots(1)
It is 1938 in the French West Africa village of Bourkassa and the one-man police force is tired of being a doormat. In this darkly comic adaptation of Jim Thompson's "POP. 1280," hapless officer Lucien Cordier decides to take the law back into his own rightful hands and rid the town of its human waste. (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Philippe Noiret
France
Best movies:
Agence matrimoniale (1952)
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
The Old Gun (1975)
Isabelle Huppert
France
Best movies:
No Time for Breakfast (1976)
The Common Man (1975)
The Lacemaker (1977)
Jean-Pierre Marielle
France
Best movies:
The Common Man (1975)
Hold-Up (1985)
Tom Thumb (1972)
Stéphane Audran
France
Best movies:
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
The Cousins (1959)
Sign of the Lion (1962)
Eddy Mitchell
France
Best movies:
'Round Midnight (1986)
I Love You (1986)
Attention ! Une femme peut en cacher une autre (1983)
Irène Skobline
Best movies:
Love in the Afternoon (1972)
The Green Ray (1986)
Clean Slate (1981)
Guy Marchand
France
Best movies:
Hold-Up (1985)
La Voie Jackson (1981) (TV movie)
The Inquisitor (1981)
Michel Beaune
France
Best movies:
The Professional (1981)
The Confession (1970)
Cop or Hood (1979)
Mamadou Dioumé
Best movies:
The Mahabharata (1989) (series)
Le Cousin (1997)
Clean Slate (1981)
Daniel Langlet
France
Best movies:
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
The Wing and the Thigh (1976)
One Deadly Summer (1983)
François Perrot
France
Best movies:
To Each His Hell (1977)
Une robe noire pour un tueur (1981)
Dirty Hands (1975)
Gérard Hernandez
Spain
Best movies:
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976)
The Hole (1960)
Lucky Luke: Ballad of the Daltons (1978)
Jean Champion
France
Best movies:
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
The Longest Day (1962)
Day for Night (1973)
Victor Garrivier
France
Best movies:
My Father's Glory (1990)
Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu (1973)
The Cry of the Owl (1987)
Irénée Martin
Best movies:
Clean Slate (1981)
Abdoulaye Diop
Best movies:
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Clean Slate (1981)
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