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The Judge and the Assassin (1976)

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier

Overview

France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders many teenagers over years. The judge Rousseau captures him, but to serve his ambition seeks to avoid that Bouvier is simply declared insane.

Length 128 minutes

Actors

Philippe Noiret | Michel Galabru | Isabelle Huppert | Jean-Claude Brialy | Renée Faure | Cécile Vassort | Jean-Roger Caussimon | Jean Bretonnière | François Dyrek | Monique Chaumette | Yves Robert | Jean Amos | Gilbert Bahon | Arlette Bonnard | Liza Braconnier | Jean-Claude de Goros | Yvon Lec | Jean-Pierre Leroux | René Morard | Bob Morel | Eddy Roos | Jean-Pierre Sentier | Gérard Jugnot