The Butcher

A Parisian suburb in the damp tail-end of winter, the butcher’s chilled steel cleaver ringing one more time. An unassuming butcher shares a nightly table with a prim schoolteacher while above their street a blade cuts loose. Claude Chabrol’s crime-classic sharpens tension like the honed edge it hides.

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Claude Chabrol directed The Butcher in 1970. See Claude Chabrol's full filmography, where to start with Claude Chabrol, or where to go after you've seen everything by Claude Chabrol.

The Butcher was released in 1970 (FR original-language production), with a runtime of 93 minutes.