The Butcher

Plot

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.

  • Claude Chabrol

    Director

  • Claude Chabrol

    Screenplay

  • Jean Rabier

    Director of Photography

  • Jacques Gaillard

    Editor

  • 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

  • Runtime

    93 minutes

    Released

    1970-02-27

    Languages

    Français

    Countries

    France

    Italy

    Studios

    Les Films La Boétie

    Euro International Films

    Sound

  • Pierre Jansen

    Original Music Composer

  • Updated

    81 days ago

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