Le juge et l'assassin

Aug 1 1979 N/A 2h 8m
Crime, Drama, History

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.

Plot

France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier, a former Sergeant in the French military, shoots his beloved and attempts to kill himself. Having survived with two bullets in his brain, he is released from the Dole medical facility, a place of mental and physical filthiness. Then begins a five-year period of wandering on the roads of the South East of France, during which Bouvier rapes and eventually kills two dozen defenseless shepherds and farm servants of both sexes. Judge Rousseau thinks this case would help his career as a right wing politician and therefore issues warrants of arrests to find any hobo fitting the description. But if Bouvier was declared insane, the Judge's plan may become a trap...

Written by

Jean Aurenche, Bertrand Tavernier, Pierre Bost

Directed by

Bertrand Tavernier

Cast

Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Isabelle Huppert

Crew

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Production Countries

France

Production Companies

SFP, FR3, Lira Films

Languages

Français

Awards

3 wins & 4 nominations

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