The Judge and the Assassin

The Judge and the Assassin

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-08-01

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

128 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (969 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Jean Aurenche

Bertrand Tavernier

Jean Aurenche (original story)

Pierre Bost (original story)

Fullplot:

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...

Comments:

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By:

Thoros of Myr

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