The Judge and the Assassin

1976

French

7.3

♡ 4

Bertrand Tavernier Director

Michel Fortin as Le chirurgien de l'hospice

Renée Faure as Mme Rousseau

Isabelle Huppert as Rose

Didier Haudepin as Un révolté à l'usine

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.