In common with many young people in their milieu, Danis and Eric are finding
it virtually impossible to make ends meet. Occasional dock workers
in the French port of Le Havre, they earn barely enough to support themselves
let alone their families, so when an opportunity to make some easy money
comes their way they grab it with both hands and ask no questions.
It so happens that Eric's sister Alex has just witnessed the delivery of
a suitcase filled with banknotes to a large house that would be cinch to
break into. The money is still sitting there - waiting to be collected!
Eric and Danis are easily tempted by the prospect of a readily acquired goldmine
and waste no time in carrying out their criminal exploit. But on entering
the house under the cover of darkness, they are surprised to find its occupant,
a corrupt politician named Mercier, in the process of committing suicide.
Little do the enterprising amateur burglars realise that Mercier is an important
secretary of state who is mixed up with some dangerous drugs traffickers.
Before they know it, Eric and his friends are sucked into a deadly vortex
from which there is apparently no hope of escape. They are not the
first people to be lured to their doom by money...
Cast: George Babluani (Danis),
Vincent Rottiers (Eric),
Charlotte Van Bervesseles (Alexandra),
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing (Mercier),
Benoît Magimel (Vincent),
Anouk Grinberg (Anaïs),
Olivier Rabourdin (Charles),
Arben Bajraktaraj (Goran),
Jean-Michel Correia (Didier),
Féodor Atkine (Jean-Philippe),
Didier Ferrari (Laurent Santucci),
Mathias Cayuela (Antoine Santucci),
Emilie Gavois-Kahn (Camille)
Country: France
Language: French
Support: Color
Runtime: 90 min
The brighter side of Franz Kafka
In his letters to his friends and family, Franz Kafka gives us a rich self-portrait that is surprisingly upbeat, nor the angst-ridden soul we might expect.
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