Requiem pour une tueuse (2011) Directed by Jérôme Le Gris
Thriller
aka: Requiem for a Killer
Film Synopsis
Lucrèce is a hired assassin who specialises in using
poison. Her latest contract takes her into the heart of the Swiss
Alps. Disguised as a singer, she must appear on stage in the
Festival d'Ermeux so that she can get close to her intended target, the
British baritone Alexander Child. The latter has recently
acquired a distillery in Scotland and is the only obstacle to a
strategic pipeline project. Child has just won a protracted legal
battle against British Oil, and so the company has no other option than
to kill him. To complicate matters, French counter-espionage has
sent one of its most experienced agents, Rico, to the festival to
unmask those who intend to kill Child...
Cast: Mélanie Laurent (Lucrèce),
Clovis Cornillac (Rico),
Tchéky Karyo (l'Arménien),
Xavier Gallais (Xavier de Ferrières),
Christopher Stills (Alexander Child),
Corrado Invernizzi (Vittorio Biamonte),
Michel Fau (Le chef d'orchestre),
Frédérique Tirmont (La colonel),
Johan Leysen (Van Kummant),
Julie Fuchs (Olga Babayova),
Geoffrey Bateman (Le PDG British Oil),
Philippe Morier-Genoud (Le prêtre),
Jean-Claude Dreyfus (Le maitre de chant),
Julien Israël (Seymour),
Bruno Flender (Ottmar),
Michel Bouis (Le remplaçant d'Ottmar),
Conrad Cecil (L'ingénieur British Oil),
Clara Ruscon (La fille de Lucrèce),
Pascal Mottier (Le barman),
Ophélie Koering (La Percussioniste)
Country: France
Language: French / English
Support: Color
Runtime: 91 min
Aka:Requiem for a Killer
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