The Butcher

Le boucher, feature film, 1970.

DIRECTED BY: Claude Chabrol

The Butcher

CAST:
Stéphane Audran (Helene),
Jean Yanne (Popaul),
Antonio Passalia (Angelo),
Pascal Ferone (Pere Cahrpy),
Mario Beccara (Leon Hamel)

SCRIPT:
Claude Chabrol

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Jean Rabier

Synopsis:
Helene and Popaul meet at a wedding in a small French village Périgord. She is a teacher and he is a butcher. Even though they are very different they become friends. Simultaneously there is a series of murders of young girls. At one of the murder scenes, Helene finds Popaul’s lighter…

35 mm, color, 93 min