The Butcher (1970)
Le Boucher
An outstanding new film by one of France's leading directors.
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.
- Date of release
- 1970-02-27
- TMDB
- 7.1 / 10 (294)
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Thriller, Crime, Drama
- Director
- Claude Chabrol
Casting
- 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
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