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The Butcher

Original title: Le Boucher

An outstanding new film by one of France's leading directors.

1970 · NR · 1h 33m

Directed by Claude Chabrol

7.1

TMDB audience score
296 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.

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Official options in the United States:

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Cast

  • Stéphane Audran
    Hélène Davile, aka 'Mlle Hélène'

  • Jean Yanne
    Paul Thomas, aka 'Popaul'

  • Roger Rudel
    Commissioner Grumbach

  • Antonio Passalia
    Angelo

  • Mario Beccara
    Léon Hamel

  • William Guérault
    Charles

  • Pascal Ferone
    Father Charpy