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The Hatter's Ghost is a french film of genre Drama directed by Claude Chabrol released in USA on 1 october 1982 with Michel Serrault

The Hatter's Ghost (1982)

The Hatter's Ghost
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Released in USA 1 october 1982
Length 2h4
Directed by
OriginFrance
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Crime
Rating70% 3.5322353.5322353.5322353.5322353.532235

The Hatter's Ghost (French: "Les fantômes du chapelier") is a 1982 film directed by Claude Chabrol. It is based on the 1947 story Le Petit Tailleur et le Chapelier by Georges Simenon. The film takes place in Brittany and was shot in the towns of Concarneau and Quimper.

Synopsis

Labbé, a hatter in a French provincial town, leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect this is his neighbour Kachoudas, an Armenian tailor. After the hatter kills his own wife, he then kills six of her friends to stop them visiting her and prepares to murder a seventh when the intended victim dies naturally. As a substitute, he murders the maid. At the same time, Kachoudas is dying and Labbé confesses his crime to him. Then, after getting drunk he visits his favourite prostitute Berthe and kills her too, being found there in the morning by the police.

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