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The Butcher

Cast

Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Roger Rudel, Antonio Passalia View All


Crew

Claude Chabrol (Screenplay), Claude Chabrol (Director) View All

Release: Feb. 27th, 1970
Runtime: 1 hour, 33 minutes
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.
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iluv2viddyfilms
The Butcher is a great film because it refuses to fall for genre traps and like all great movies, really caters little to the audience in explaining plot.


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