
The Butcher(1970)
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.



Jean Poiret
Inspecteur Jean Lavardin

Stéphane Audran
Madame Cuno

Michel Bouquet
Hubert Lavoisier

Lucas Belvaux
Louis Cuno

Jean Topart
Docteur Philippe Morasseau

Pauline Lafont
Henriette

Caroline Cellier
Anna Foscarie

Josephine Chaplin
Delphine Moreasseau

Andrée Tainsy
Marthe

Jean-Claude Bouillaud
Gérard Filiol
Cop au Vin is a crime, mystery, thriller film released in 1985 exploring themes of estate agent, corruption, province, inspector. Directed by Claude Chabrol, it stars Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet. Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.
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