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...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Jérôme Le Gris
  • Script: Jérôme Le Gris
  • Cinematographer: Antoine Monod
  • Music: Jiri Heger, Anne-Sophie Versnaeyen, Régis Vogëlène
  • 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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