Jupiter's Thigh

Jupiter's Thigh

100 mins | Comedy | Feb. 6, 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?

Jupiter's Thigh

100 mins | Comedy | Feb. 6, 1980

Jupiter's Thigh
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?
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers France 3 Cinéma, Mondex Films, Les Films Ariane
Original title On a volé la cuisse de Jupiter
Directors Philippe de Broca
Writers Claude Olivier, Jean-Paul Rouland, Michel Audiard

Cast

Philippe Noiret

as Antoine Lemercier

Annie Girardot

as Lise Tanquerelle

Francis Perrin

as Charles-Hubert Pochet

Catherine Alric

as Agnès Pochet

Marc Dudicourt

as Spiratos

Paulette Dubost

as La mère de Lise

Roger Carel

as Sacharias, le conservateur

Anna Gaylor

as La femme du touriste français

Gabriel Cattand

as Le maire

Philippe Brizard

as Le touriste français

Vasilis Kolovos

as L'inspecteur de police