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L'Emprise

L'Emprise

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 26, 2015

Runtime

1h 38m

Genres

Drama, TV Movie

User Score

77%

Original Title

L'Emprise

Production Companies

TF1 Films Production

Director

Claude-Michel Rome

Description

"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?