Overview - L'Emprise

Date of release

Genres

  • Drama
  • TV Movie

Runtime: 98 minutes

Homepage: L'Emprise

Budget

Budget data not disclosed

Revenue

Revenue data not disclosed

Spoken Languages

  • Deutsch
  • Français
  • Italiano

Production companies

  • Name: TF1 Films Production

    Production country France

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?

Cast

  • Name: Odile Vuillemin

    Character: Alexandra Lange

    Popularity: 1.4844

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  • Name: Fred Testot

    Character: Marcello Guillemin

    Popularity: 0.413

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  • Name: Marc Lavoine

    Character: Prosecutor Luc Frémiot

    Popularity: 0.2096

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  • Name: Lolita Chammah

    Character: Brigitte

    Popularity: 0.2465

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  • Name: Micky Sébastian

    Character: Judge Schneider

    Popularity: 0.2583

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  • Name: Robert Lange

    Character: Sam Karmann

    Popularity: 0.0143