Sept morts sur ordonnance (Seven Deaths by Prescription or ) is a 1975

1975 in film

The year 1975 in film involved some significant events, with Steven Spielberg's thriller Jaws topping the box office.-Events:*March 26 - The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London....

 French film directed by Jacques Rouffio

Jacques Rouffio

Jacques Rouffio is a French film director and screenwriter. His 1986 film My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival.-Filmography as director:...

 and starring Michel Piccoli, Gérard Depardieu

Gérard Depardieu

Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is a French actor and filmmaker. He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite and has twice won the César Award for Best Actor...

, Jane Birkin

Jane Birkin

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, Marina Vlady

Marina Vlady

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 and Charles Vanel

Charles Vanel

Charles-Marie Vanel, known as Charles Vanel was a French director and actor. He made his screen debut in 1912, in Robert Péguy's Jim Crow...

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The film won the César Award for Best Editing

César Award for Best Editing

The César Award for Best Editing is one of the annual César Awards given by the French Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema. Eligible films are usually in the French language.-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:...

, and was nominated for Best Film, Best Actor and Best Writing.

Plot

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 blackmail. Losseray learns about the story of Doctor Jean-Pierre Berg, another man who was similarly hassled by the same man fifteen years before, and beocmes obsessed with it. Berg killed himself, his wife Jane, and their children, apparently in response to the pressure. Losseray eventually shares the same fate as Berg, and the Brézé clan continue with their neferious activities.