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L'Emprise

2015 · 1h 38m

Directed by Claude-Michel Rome

7.6

TMDB audience score
164 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

"L'emprise" is the story of a drama, adapted from the moving book-witness "Acquitted", by Alexandra Lange. The story of a mother of four children, which is found in March 2012 in the dock of the foundations of Douai for the murder of her husband. How does a woman manage to kill the father of her children with a knife? During the three days of the trial, panting narrative takes us into the daily life of Alexandra, a mother that the society has failed to protect, neither she nor her children from the control of a monster she has loved. Through this incident that made headlines and upset the public, an event movie that raises the question of the balance of justice. Will she be heard?

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Cast

  • Odile Vuillemin
    Alexandra Lange

  • Fred Testot
    Marcello Guillemin

  • Marc Lavoine
    Prosecutor Luc Frémiot

  • Lolita Chammah
    Brigitte

  • Micky Sébastian
    Judge Schneider

  • Robert Lange
    Sam Karmann