A Murder in Abidjan
- Crime
- Documentary
Overview
1995. On the outskirts of Abidjan, the largest city in Ivory Coast, a policeman is murdered. Shot outside his vehicle, while his fiancée sits in the car, terrified. Superintendent Kouassi is the detective in charge of the investigation. Tall and lanky, he moves with the tired energy of a man who has seen it all. Drawing on a network of underworld characters with dubious information, Kouassi’s team begins bringing in potential suspects and subjecting them to horrific brutality: beating them with sticks, hanging them upside-down, threatening their lives. Some of the men are left so broken they have to literally drag themselves into Kouassi’s office later, to be interrogated while lying on the floor, their bodies a mess of bruises, broken bones, and lacerations.
Keywords
- heist
- drug addiction
- police brutality
- gun violence
- gun
- drug addict
- police investigation
- police officer killed
- stolen cars
- intimidation by police
- murder of a police officer
- police arrest
- ivory coast
- police interrogation
- police protagonist
- abidjan
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 2, 2000
- Original language
- French
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0205278