Le Juge et l'assassin
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Bertrand Tavernier
Philippe Noiret
Michel Galabru
Jean-claude Brialy
Renee Faure
Isabelle Huppert
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France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier, a former Sergeant in the French military, shoots his beloved and attempts to kill himself. Having survived with two bullets in his brain, he is released from the Dole medical facility, a place of mental and physical filthiness. Then begins a five-year period of wandering on the roads of the South East of France, during which Bouvier rapes and eventually kills two dozen defenseless shepherds and farm servants of both sexes. Judge Rousseau thinks this case would help his career as a right wing politician and therefore issues warrants of arrests to find any hobo fitting the description. But if Bouvier was declared insane, the Judge's plan may become a trap...
Director
Bertrand Tavernier
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Released in United States 1976
Released in United States March 1976 (Shown at FILMEX: Los Angeles International Film Exposition (Contemporary Cinema) March 18-31, 1976.)
Released in United States 1976
Released in United States March 1976
Released in United States on Video December 1, 1993
Released in United States on Video December 1, 1993
