The Judge and the Assassin (1976)
Le juge et l'assassin (original title)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Philippe Noiret	...	Judge Rousseau
	Michel Galabru	...	Sgt. Joseph Bouvier
	Isabelle Huppert	...	Rose
	Jean-Claude Brialy	...	Villedieu, Attorney
	Renée Faure	...	Mme. Rousseau
	Cécile Vassort	...	Louise Leseuer
	Jean-Roger Caussimon	...	Street Singer
	Jean Bretonnière	...	Deputy
	François Dyrek	...	Released Tramp
	Monique Chaumette	...	Louise's Mother
	Yves Robert	...	Prof. Degueldre
	Jean Amos	...	Le gardien-chef
	Gilbert Bahon	...	Traveler
	Arlette Bonnard	...	Farm Girl With Soup
	Liza Braconnier	...	Hospital Nun

Storyline

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 Vincent Merlaud <merlaud@studi.mathematik.hu-berlin.de>  

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