Coup de Torchon

Plot Summary

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.

adultery

based on novel or book

murder

mistress

racism

french noir

framed for a crime

public humiliation

open marriage

gun shooting

voyeur

french colonialism

french colony

revenge killing

african village

west africa

abused wife

lazy

witty

gun death

openly adulterous wife

adulterous husband

corrupt police

manipulative man

love triangles