The Butcher
An outstanding new film by one of France's leading directors.
Film19701h 33mReleased
DramaThrillerCrime
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- Director
- Claude Chabrol
- Language
- French
- Released
- 1970-02-27
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
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6.7
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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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