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Manslaughter

Manslaughter

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 12, 2012

Runtime

1h 27m

Genres

Thriller, Drama

User Score

66%

Original Title

Doodslag

Production Companies

Pupkin, Nederlands Fonds voor de Film, CoBo Fonds

Director

Pieter Kuijpers

Revenue

$702,851

Description

Doodslag (Dutch for "Manslaughter") is the story of Max, a paramedic who is repeatedly hindered in performing his duties by loutish behaviour. As his ambulance hurries towards a complicated childbirth, some youths prevent Max from reaching the distressed woman in labour. Spurred on by the emergency and the incendiary words of a TV pundit, he reaches a boiling point and forcefully hits one of the men obstructing his ambulance. Max's strike has far-reaching, unintended consequences.