Hygiene and the Assassin (French: Hygiène de l'assassin, lit.

Thus, all the interviews fall short, until Nina, a relatively unknown journalist becomes the latest victim of the novelist.

[1][2][3][4] By the end of the story, the novelist is revealed to be a murderer with a strange obsession about the filthiness he thinks puberty brings upon girls and turns them into adult women, and how his spirit will live on even in death.

[5] It starred Jean Yanne as Prétextat Tach, Barbara Schulz as Nina, as well as Catherine Hiegel, Sophie Broustal, Jean Prat and Richard Gotainer.

The film omits the entire chapter where four journalists are expelled by the writer and adds a police investigation.