Cop au Vin

Cop au Vin
Film poster
Directed byClaude Chabrol
Written byClaude Chabrol
Dominique Roulet
Produced byMarin Karmitz
StarringJean Poiret
CinematographyJean Rabier
Edited byMonique Fardoulis
Release date
  • 10 April 1985 (1985-04-10)
Running time
119 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office$5.7 million[1]

Cop au Vin (French: Poulet au vinaigre) is a 1985 French crime film directed by Claude Chabrol. It was entered into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.[2] The original French title is a pun: it literally means "vinegar chicken," but "poulet" is also French slang for "cop." The English title is also a pun on coq au vin. Chabrol made a sequel in 1986 titled Inspecteur Lavardin.

  1. ^ "Poulet au vinaigre (1985)- JPBox-Office". Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  2. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Chicken with Vinegar". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 28 June 2009.