The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (Dutch: De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen) is a 1966 Belgian drama film directed by André Delvaux, starring Senne Rouffaer and Beata Tyszkiewicz.
It tells the story of a schoolteacher who falls in love with one of his students, and moves away in order to escape his infatuation.
[2] Govert Miereveld, a married man with two children who is working as a teacher in a secondary school, attends the end-of-year awards.
She leaves school and he falls into depression, moving his family to another town and taking a job there as court clerk.
Asked to attend the on-site autopsy of a decomposed corpse found in the river, he is profoundly shocked at what happens to the human body.