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The Butcher (1970)

★ 7.1 · 273 ratings on TMDB

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

The Butcher poster★ 7.1

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.

DirectorClaude Chabrol
CastAntonio Passalia, Jean Yanne, Mario Beccara, Pascal Ferone, Roger Rudel, Stéphane Audran
GenresCrime, Drama, Thriller
The emergence reading

The Butcher keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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