A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate about the ransom of 50 million euro.
Acting
Yvan Attal's physical decay is genuinely hard to watch.
Direction
Belvaux refuses to let anyone be sympathetic.
Editing
Parallel negotiations that expose who's really imprisoned.
Director
Lucas Belvaux
Yvan Attal
Stanislas Graff
Anne Consigny
Françoise Graff
Françoise Fabian
Marjorie
André Marcon
André Peyrac
Alex Descas
Maître Walser
Michel Voïta
Commissaire Paoli
Maxime Lefrançois
Bertaux
Christophe Kourotchkine
Jean-Jacques Garnier
Bertrand Constant
Le capitaine Verne
Gérard Meylan
Le Marseillais
Marc Rioufol
Le commandant Chenut
Patrick Descamps
Massart
Tania Torrens
Madame Keller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Loosely inspired by the 1978 kidnapping of French industrialist Édouard-Jean Empain, who similarly faced public scandal during his ordeal.
Belvaux deliberately cast theatre actors for the boardroom scenes — their rigid physicality mirrors corporate performance.
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