Blackout (2009)
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Yann Sundberg, Jean-Pierre Martins, Tom Méziane, Gauthier Battoue, Cristiana Réali, Florent Pagny
A massive power outage throws Europe into chaos as a hospital department head struggles over whether to leave to find his children.
The story
A massive power outage throws Europe into chaos as a hospital department head struggles over whether to leave to find his children.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
At 9:34 p.m. on [date unspecified], a power outage plunges 250 million Europeans into darkness. Northeastern France is affected. Trains are stranded in the countryside, air traffic is diverted, and water treatment plants stop working. Very quickly, drinking water becomes scarce and shops are stormed. Manuel, head of the urology department at a university hospital, hesitates to abandon his department at the worst possible moment to go find his two children. Yann, a prisoner, takes advantage of the general chaos to escape from the prison van transporting him. He meets the two children of Béatrice, the deputy mayor…
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