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Legal Aid

Legal Aid

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 6, 2009

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Thriller

User Score

67%

Original Title

Commis d'office

Production Companies

Bac Films

Director

Hannelore Cayre

Description

At the age of forty, Antoine Lahoud is still defending petty criminals who are entitled only to legal aid. He still has a quixotic notion of his mission but, lately, his little income and his arduous working conditions have been eroding his idealism. So, when Henry Marsac, a leading (but seemingly corrupt), professional colleague, offers him to work on bigger and more lucrative cases, he ends up accepting. Little does he know what Marsac is up to...