Title: The Ax (Le Couperet)
Release Date: 2005-03-02
IMDB ID: tt0422015
Vote Average: 6.911 (237 votes)
Overview: Bruno loved his job as a middle manager at a paper company, but optimistically views being laid off as an opportunity. After two years of searching for a comparable position, optimism turns to desperation. His wife works two jobs, and their marriage slowly deteriorates as their hold on the middle class slips away. Bruno concocts a grimly audacious plan to identify and kill his fellow job applicants so that he is the only qualified person left.
Cast: José Garcia (Bruno Davert), Karin Viard (Marlène Davert), Ulrich Tukur (Gérard Hutchinson), Olivier Gourmet (Raymond Machefer), Yvon Back (Etienne Barnet), Thierry Hancisse (Inspector Kesler),
Crew: Michèle Ray-Gavras (Producer), Jean-Pierre Dardenne (Producer), Luc Dardenne (Producer), José María Morales (Producer), Nicolas Naegelen (Sound Engineer), Costa-Gavras (Director),
Release Date: 2005-03-02
IMDB ID: tt0422015
Vote Average: 6.911 (237 votes)
Overview: Bruno loved his job as a middle manager at a paper company, but optimistically views being laid off as an opportunity. After two years of searching for a comparable position, optimism turns to desperation. His wife works two jobs, and their marriage slowly deteriorates as their hold on the middle class slips away. Bruno concocts a grimly audacious plan to identify and kill his fellow job applicants so that he is the only qualified person left.
Cast: José Garcia (Bruno Davert), Karin Viard (Marlène Davert), Ulrich Tukur (Gérard Hutchinson), Olivier Gourmet (Raymond Machefer), Yvon Back (Etienne Barnet), Thierry Hancisse (Inspector Kesler),
Crew: Michèle Ray-Gavras (Producer), Jean-Pierre Dardenne (Producer), Luc Dardenne (Producer), José María Morales (Producer), Nicolas Naegelen (Sound Engineer), Costa-Gavras (Director),