(Que la Bête Meure) starring Michel Duchaussoy Caroline Cellier , Jean Yanne
A selection of some of the best foreign films shown on BBC2 in the last three years.
When Charles Thenier first decides to hunt and kill the hit-and-run driver who caused the death of his son, he sees it as a kind of divine retribution. Gradually, however, the anticipation of his revenge becomes more and more pleasurable until, face to face with his victim, Thenier finds himself reluctant to end the chase.
Script by PAUL GEGAUFF based on the novel The Beast Must Die by NICHOLAS BLAKE
Directed by CLAUDE CHABROL. Films- p 23 (A French film with English sub-titles)