I finally found this film on the web! So it wasn't just my imagination. I rank this as amongst the very best films I've ever seen. I saw it some 25-30 years ago on British TV as part of what must have been a foreign film series on BBC2. The complexity of the plot and the straight-faced comedy are superb. Who can forget the nonchalant way the star says words to the effect 'it doesn't matter' when someone bounces on the trampoline and over the side of the building, or the Nazi's killing themselves off? There was also a good French film (about a ?hitman who commits suicide in a hotel and the man in the next room gets mistaken for him) but this is the only one I remember the name of. Now to go back and read the other people's comments... And then to try to find it on DVD somewhere.
