The Butcher

Directed by Claude Chabrol

Written by Claude Chabrol

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.

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

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William Guérault

Charles

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Pascal Ferone

Father Charpy