
Overview
When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.
Fun facts
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Setting
Set in Paris
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Sequels
Followed by Jupiter's Thigh
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Collection
Part of Inspector Tanquerelle
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Music
Music by Georges Delerue
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Jean-Paul Schwartz
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Jean-Paul RoulandWriter, Novel
- Michel AudiardWriter
- Claude OlivierNovel
- Original title
- Tendre Poulet
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 18, 1978
- Original language
- French
- Countries
- France
- Collection
- Inspector Tanquerelle






































