The Butcher

• 7.089 Thriller
• 1970-02-27
• 93 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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)

Director:

Claude Chabrol

Writer:

Claude Chabrol