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Coup de Torchon

1981

In a French colonial town in 1930s Africa, a spineless, much-abused police chief snaps and decides to remake his life by quietly murdering those who torment him. Bertrand Tavernier's blackly comic drama, transposed from a Jim Thompson noir.

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