France,
1981, 128 min
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)