La Chambre des morts (2007) Directed by Alfred Lot
Crime / Thriller
aka: Chamber of Death
Film Synopsis
One night, Vigo and Sylvain decide to take their revenge on their
former employer for dismissing them by ransacking his company
premises. As they make a hasty getaway, they knock down a man who
had been furtively crossing a wind farm. The man is
dead. By his side is a suitcase containing two million Euros in
banknotes. Having hidden the body, Vigo and Sylvain take the
money, not knowing that this is the ransom that was to be paid to
someone who had kidnapped a young girl. The next day, the body of
the girl is found in a depot, the reward for the non-payment of the ransom.
That same evening, another child is abducted, this time a diabetic...
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