The Judge and the Assassin

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.

• Bertrand TavernierDirector
• Bertrand TavernierWriter
• Jean AurencheWriter
• Pierre BostWriter
• Philippe SardeOriginal Music Composer

• Philippe NoiretJuge Rousseau
• Michel GalabruJoseph Bouvier
• Isabelle HuppertRose
• Jean-Claude BrialyAvocat Villedieu
• Renée FaureMme Rousseau
• Cécile VassortLouise Leseuer
• Jean-Roger CaussimonChanteur de rue
• Jean BretonnièreLe député
• François DyrekLe cheminot libéré
• Monique ChaumetteLa mère de Louise
• Yves RobertProfesseur Degueldre
• Jean AmosLe gardien-chef