La maison assassinée (1988)
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Patrick Bruel, Anne Brochet, Agnès Blanchot, Ingrid Held
The sole survivor of a family massacre returns decades later, seeking peace while pursuing the killers.
The story
In 1896, three strangers brutally murder the Monge family in the highlands of Haute-Provence, leaving infant Séraphin as the sole survivor. Twenty-five years later, after demobilization at the end of the Great War, Séraphin returns to the scene. Haunted by the memory of his mother, who died trying to reach him, he plans to destroy his home in search of peace. At the same time, he seeks to identify the murderers and avenge her.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
In 1896, in the wild highlands of Haute-Provence, the Monge family is brutally murdered in the middle of the night by three strangers. The sole infant survivor of the massacre, Séraphin Monge returns to the scene twenty-five years later, after being demobilized at the end of the Great War. The image of his mother, who died trying to reach him one last time, haunts him. He sets out to destroy his home in order to find peace, while seeking to identify the murderers and avenge his mother. To his great surprise, a stranger gets ahead of him on his path to revenge and massacres everyone who seems to hold a piece of the puzzle behind the Monges’ dark history.
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