Le Couperet
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| Directed by | Costa-Gavras |
| Produced by | Michèle Ray-Gavras |
| Written by | Jean-Claude Grumberg Costa-Gavras |
| Starring | José Garcia Karin Viard Olivier Gourmet Christa Theret Yolande Moreau Dieudonné Kabongo |
| Cinematography | Patrick Blossier |
| Distributed by | Mars Distribution |
| Release date(s) | 2005 |
| Running time | 122 min |
| Country | Belgium France Spain |
Le Couperet is a Belgian-French-Spanish (2005) film. The English title of this film is The Axe.
Directed by Costa-Gavras and starring José Garcia, Karin Viard and Olivier Gourmet, Le Couperet is an adaptation of the novel The Ax by Donald E. Westlake. The film follows the "hero", Bruno D. (Garcia), trying to do the right thing but having no choice than to take the wrong path.
Synopsis
The thirty-nine-year-old executive Bruno Davert has been working for fifteen years in a paper company. After a merging operation with a Romanian company, he is laid off due to downsizing. While unemployed for two years, Bruno loses his self-esteem and sanity and his family loses the middle-class lifestyle without cable television, Internet and regular consumption. He concludes that there is too much competition in his sector for a few job positions and decides to literally eliminate his competitors, killing those more qualified than him.
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