Jupiter's Thigh

Feb 6, 1980

1h 40m

★ 6.2

Overview

Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple, Charles, an archaeologist, and Agnes, a dishy flirt. Charles unearths the lovely buttocks of a classical statue and is determined to donate it to the Louvre. Agnes wants to sell it and gets a handsome local sailor to take it for an appraisal. When the sailor is murdered, the police suspect Charles and arrest Antoine as his accomplice. Lise swings into action, but before she can clear the men, Agnes springs them from jail, and now Lise must help them elude the police, find the real murderer, and recover the statue fragment. More art goes missing. What is the statue's secret?

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Les Films Ariane

Mondex Films

France 3 Cinéma

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Cast

Antoine Lemercier

Philippe Noiret

Lise Tanquerelle

Annie Girardot

Charles-Hubert Pochet

Francis Perrin

Agnès Pochet

Catherine Alric

Spiratos

Marc Dudicourt

La mère de Lise

Paulette Dubost

Sacharias, le conservateur

Roger Carel

La femme du touriste français

Anna Gaylor

Le maire

Gabriel Cattand

Le touriste français

Philippe Brizard

Nikos Tsachiridis

Nikos Dafnis

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