The Butcher

1970 • 1h 33m • Thriller, Crime, Drama

100%Rotten Tomatoes

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

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.

Director

Claude Chabrol

Writers

Claude Chabrol

Status

Released