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Why this pick
Costa-Gavras delivers the same urgent, fact-rooted political intensity: institutions close ranks around injustice while the investigation gathers force with brisk, controlled suspense.
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MOVIE1970 2h 19m FRA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Jon Lansdale is a comic book illustrator, whose relationship with his beautiful wife Anne and daughter Lizzie is on the rocks. While driving, Anne and Lansdale end up behind a slow-moving truck and an impatient driver behind them. In the heat of an argument, Anne accidentally pulls back too fast while Lansdale is waving down the truck driver, causing his right hand to be completely severed. Anne attempts to find the severed hand but it is too late.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Gabriele Ferzetti
Kohoutek
Michel Beaune
l'avocat
Michel Vitold
Smola
Jean Bouise
Boss of factory
Michel Robin
le procureur général