L'Emprise

L'Emprise — Plot

"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?

• Release date
• January 26, 2015
• Runtime
• 98 min
• Genres
• Drama, TV Movie
• Director
• Claude-Michel Rome

L'Emprise — Cast

Odile Vuillemin Alexandra Lange Fred Testot Marcello Guillemin Marc Lavoine Prosecutor Luc Frémiot Lolita Chammah Brigitte Micky Sébastian Judge Schneider

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Robert Lange Sam Karmann