Un homme en fuite (2024)
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Bastien Bouillon, Léa Drucker, Pierre Lottin, Marion Barbeau, Théo Navarro-Mussy, Anne Consigny
When a factory-town strike is rocked by a deadly armored-van robbery, a returning writer and a local gendarme race to find the vanished robber.
The story
In the Ardennes, plans to close Rochebrune’s main factory fuel social tensions, and workers are supported in their strike by Johnny Laforge, an outsider recently released after seven years in prison for shooting his former boss. Seeking money to help the workers, Johnny sets out to rob an armored bank van. The robbery ends with a security guard dead, and Johnny disappears with the money. The highly publicized crime draws Paul Ligre, Johnny’s childhood friend and now a writer, back to the area after fifteen years apart. He and Anna Werner, a local gendarme assigned to the case, begin competing to find Johnny.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
In the Ardennes, the impending closure of Rochebrune’s main factory is creating social tensions. The workers are supported in their strike by an outsider, Johnny Laforge (Pierre Lottin), who has recently been released after seven years in prison for shooting his former boss. To help them financially, Johnny decides to rob an armored bank van. The armed robbery ends with one of the two security guards dead. Johnny and the money have disappeared. The widely publicized crime brings Paul Ligre (Bastien Bouillon), his childhood friend, back to the area. Now a writer, Paul has not seen Johnny for fifteen years. A race to find Johnny begins between Paul and Anna Werner (Léa Drucker), a gendarme with the criminal investigation unit assigned to the case, who is also from Rochebrune.
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