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L'Emprise

Not Rated Drama TV Movie

Starring: Odile Vuillemin, Fred Testot, Marc Lavoine, Lolita Chammah, Micky Sébastian

Writer: Catherine Ramberg, Alexandra Lange, Claude-Michel Rome

Release Date:
January 26, 2015
Ratings:
7.7 / 10
Director:
Claude-Michel Rome
Companies:
TF1 Films Production

Overview

"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?