Feb 06, 1980
100 min
Full-HD

Jupiter's Thigh (1980)

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?

Category

Comedy

Country

France

Companies

Les Films Ariane Mondex Films France 3 Cinéma

Philippe Noiret

Antoine Lemercier

Annie Girardot

Lise Tanquerelle

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

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