Coup de Torchon
| Coup de Torchon | |
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| Directed by | Bertrand Tavernier |
| Screenplay by | Bertrand Tavernier Jean Aurenche |
| Based on | Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson |
| Produced by | Henri Lassa Adolphe Viezzi |
| Starring | Philippe Noiret Isabelle Huppert Jean-Pierre Marielle |
| Cinematography | Pierre-William Glenn |
| Edited by | Armand Psenny |
| Music by | Philippe Sarde |
| Distributed by | Parafrance Films |
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Running time | 128 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Box office | $16.5 million |
Coup de Torchon (also known as Clean Slate) is a 1981 French crime film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and adapted from Jim Thompson's 1964 novel Pop. 1280. The film changes the novel's setting from an American Southern town to a small town in French West Africa. The film had 2,199,309 admissions in France and was the 16th most attended film of the year. It received the Prix Méliès from the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics as the best French film of 1981.
Coup de Torchon was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Academy Awards