

1970 · 1h 33m · Movie
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.
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In theaters: December 19, 1971
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