The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside

Jan 7, 1976

1h 14m

★ 5.2

Overview

A bus conductor gets dressed for work in the morning, goes to the toilet, where he is killed by a bomb. The Commissioner and his fat, bumbling assistant, Inspector Charbonnier are put on the case. After interviewing friends, wives, colleagues, and spying on strangers who might be connected, our heroes trace the assassin down to a mental institution where, it seems, the murder victim has been an inmate for the last three years...

Genres

Crime

Comedy

Production Companies

Gaumont

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Cast

L'inspecteur Charbonnier

Coluche

Le commissaire Pichard

Jean Rochefort

Gazul

Roland Dubillard

Gwendoline

Danièle Evenou

René

Robert Berri

Barbocelli

Jean Luisi

Joseph Ordure

Billy Bourbon

La mère du médecin

Olga Valéry

L'entraîneur

Robert Dalban

Odette Jeandrin

Virginie Vignon

Le psychiatre

Jean-Pierre Sentier

Mme Piazzorossicelli

Ellen Bahl

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