27 Feb 1970
The Butcher
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.
Symphony for a Massacre
A band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffickers: the five fraudsters will face bigger problems than them.
Top Billed Cast
Michel Auclair Clavet
Claude Dauphin Valoti
Charles Vanel Paoli
Jean Rochefort Jabeke
Michèle Mercier Madeleine Clavet
Daniela Rocca Hélène Valoti
Claude Cerval (uncredited)
Jean Degrave Games room employee (uncredited)
Maurice Garrel (uncredited)
Billy Kearns American customer (uncredited)
Pierre Mirat (uncredited)
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