This Man Must Die (1969)

Original title

Que la bête meure

Directed by

Claude Chabrol

Genre

drama film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

12

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 181 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widower sets out to find the driver who killed his son in a hit-and-run. He becomes fixated on revenge and plans to murder the man responsible.

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What happens

This Man Must Die (French: Que la bête meure), also titled Killer! in the UK, is a 1969 French–Italian psychological thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol. It is based on the 1938 novel The Beast Must Die by Cecil Day-Lewis, writing as Nicholas Blake. The story follows a widower who, obsessed with revenge after his only son is killed in a hit-and-run incident, tracks down the driver with the intent to kill him. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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