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.

Credits

Claude ChabrolDirector

Stéphane AudranHélène Davile, aka 'Mlle Hélène'

Jean YannePaul Thomas, aka 'Popaul'

Roger RudelCommissioner Grumbach

Antonio PassaliaAngelo