On a volé la cuisse de Jupiter (1980)
Directed by Philippe de Broca

Comedy / Crime

Film Synopsis

Antoine Lemercier, a professor, and Lise Tanquerelle, a police inspector, are spending their honeymoon in Greece.  One day, they meet a young archaeologist named Charles-Hubert Pochet who immediately lambastes Antoine for the book he has recently penned.  Pochet later makes it up with the couple by taking them out to dinner.  The next day, the Lemerciers see Pochet's wife Agnès in the arms of a Greek sailor, but Pochet is to happy with his latest discovery, an antique statute, to care, even when he drops it on his leg.  Under the cover of darkness, Agnès and her Greek friend steal the statue.  Lise and Antoine resume their peaceful honeymoon but are surprised, a few days later, to see the Greek sailor trying to sell the statue.  Antoine alerts Charles-Hubert and together they visit the Greek, to find that his throat has been cut.  Before they know it, the two Frenchmen have been arrested, charged with the sailor's murder...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Philippe de Broca
  • Script: Jean-Paul Rouland, Claude Olivier, Philippe de Broca, Michel Audiard (dialogue)
  • Cinematographer: Jean-Paul Schwartz
  • Music: Giorgos Hatzinasios
  • Cast: Annie Girardot (Lise Tanquerelle), Philippe Noiret (Antoine Lemercier), Francis Perrin (Charles-Hubert Pochet), Catherine Alric (Agnès Pochet), Marc Dudicourt (Spiratos), Paulette Dubost (La mère de Lise), Roger Carel (Sacharias, le conservateur), Anna Gaylor (La femme du touriste français), Gabriel Cattand (Le maire), Philippe Brizard (Le touriste français), Vasilis Kolovos (L'inspecteur de police), Nikos Tsachiridis, Nikos Dafnis
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Color (Eastmancolor)
  • Runtime: 100 min

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