Characters & Themes
The Butcher (1970) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1970 · 93 mins · French
- Directed by
- Claude Chabrol
- Starring
- Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia, Roger Rudel, Mario Beccara, William Guérault
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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