
Housemaid Georgette loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.


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...

Coluche
L'inspecteur Charbonnier

Jean Rochefort
Le commissaire Pichard

Roland Dubillard
Gazul

Danièle Evenou
Gwendoline

Robert Berri
René

Jean Luisi
Barbocelli
Billy Bourbon
Joseph Ordure

Olga Valéry
La mère du médecin

Robert Dalban
L'entraîneur

Virginie Vignon
Odette Jeandrin
The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside is a crime, comedy film released in 1976 exploring themes of france, asylum, black humor, toilet, based on comic, murder. Directed by Patrice Leconte, it stars Coluche, Jean Rochefort, Roland Dubillard. 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...
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