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Seven Deaths by Prescription is a french film of genre Drama directed by Jacques Rouffio with Michel Piccoli

Seven Deaths by Prescription (1975)

Seven Deaths by Prescription
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Length 1h46
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OriginFrance
Genres Drama,    Thriller
Rating61% 3.0935453.0935453.0935453.0935453.093545

Sept morts sur ordonnance (English: Seven Deaths by Prescription or Bestial Quartet) is a 1975 French film directed by Jacques Rouffio and starring Michel Piccoli, Gérard Depardieu, Jane Birkin, Marina Vlady, Charles Vanel and Valérie Mairesse.

The film was awarded the César Award for Best Editing, and was nominated for Best Film, Best Actor and Best Writing.

Synopsis

Pierre Losseray is a surgeon at the public hospital in a small provincial town. He has recently suffered a heart attack but has returned to work. He is appreciated by his patients, and is being hassled by Old Brézé, the owner of a nearby medical clinic, who is losing clients and cannot stand competition. In league with his sons and son-in-law, Brézé uses insinuations close to blackmail. Losseray also learns about the story of Doctor Jean-Pierre Berg, another surgeon with a very different lifestyle from Losseray, who was similarly hassled by the same man fifteen years before. He becomes obsessed with it as he discovers what it was about.

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