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The Judge and the Assassin: Directed by Bertrand Tavernier. With Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Claude Brialy. An unstable former French Sergeant commits many atrocities.
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- Crime, Drama, History
- Bertrand Tavernier
- 1979-08
The Judge and the Assassin. The Judge and the Assassin ( French: Le Juge et l'assassin) is a 1976 French drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier that stars Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Michel Galabru, and Jean-Claude Brialy. Set in France in the 1890s, it shows the capture after a trail of rapes and murders of a possibly deranged ex ...
- 10 March 1976
- Raymond Danon
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- 3 min
- 5.6K
- Cinémannonce
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.
"You've set the public up; you mustn't deprive them of the kill." Based on the case of late-nineteenth century French serial killer Joseph Vacher, Bertrand Tavernier's The Judge and the Assassin (Le Juge et l'assassin) follows duplicitous Judge Rousseau (Philippe Noiret) as he seeks national celebrity by sending deranged serial killer Joseph Bouvier (Michel Galabru) to the guillotine after ...
- (1.7K)
- Lira Films, FR3, SFP
- Bertrand Tavernier
Brief Synopsis. 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 ...
In common with most of Bertrand Tavernier's films, Le Juge et l'assassin is beautifully photographed and has a very distinguished cast. Here the cast includes not only established stars such as Philippe Noiret and Jean-Claude Brialy, but also newcomer Isabelle Huppert and veteran performer Renée Faure, an actress of stage and screen who was at ...
