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.
- Director: Claude Chabrol
- Casting: Antonio Passalia, Jean Yanne, Stéphane Audran
- Executive Production: Euro International Film (EIA), Les Films La Boëtie
- Distributor: Parafrance