La Chambre des morts (2007)
Directed by Alfred Lot

Crime / Thriller
aka: Chamber of Death

Film Synopsis

One night, Vigo and Sylvain decide to take their revenge on their former employer for dismissing them by ransacking his company premises.  As they make a hasty getaway, they knock down a man who had been furtively crossing a wind farm.   The man is dead.  By his side is a suitcase containing two million Euros in banknotes.  Having hidden the body, Vigo and Sylvain take the money, not knowing that this is the ransom that was to be paid to someone who had kidnapped a young girl.  The next day, the body of the girl is found in a depot, the reward for the non-payment of the ransom.  That same evening, another child is abducted, this time a diabetic...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Alfred Lot
  • Script: Alfred Lot, Franck Thilliez (novel)
  • Cinematographer: Jérôme Alméras
  • Music: Nathaniel Méchaly
  • Cast: Mélanie Laurent (Lucie Hennebelle), Eric Caravaca (Moreno), Gilles Lellouche (Sylvain), Jonathan Zaccaï (Vigo), Céline Sallette (Annabelle), Laurence Côte (Alex), Jean-François Stévenin (Léon), Nathalie Richard (Valet), Stéphane Jobert (Raviez), Antoine Oppenheim (Colin), Alexandre Carrière (Stan), Fanny Cottençon (La mère de Lucie), Jean-Pierre Gos (Van Boost), Caroline Bourg (Mère), Lola Créton, Édith Le Merdy
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 115 min
  • Aka: Chamber of Death ; Melody's Smile ; Room of Death

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