Black List (Bilingual)
Author: Michel Côté
Format: Subtitled
Release Date: 29-11-2005
Details: After having orchestrated her own arrest in order to embark on a blackmail operation, a prostitute, Gabrielle Angers, causes quite a stir when in the middle of court she hands over the list of her most illustrious clients: respected lawyers, honorable judges, and even a minister. Faced with journalists who urge him to make the list public, his colleagues who enjoin him not to do so, the judge quickly finds himself in an impossible situation. Death threats are addressed to her, a brutal assassination is committed, Gabrielle herself is attacked. Who acts like this in the shadows? Investigators Laberge and Gauthier gather the clues. As they get closer to the truth, a directive tells them to close the investigation. If Laberge obeys, Gauthier decides to get to the bottom of things with Gabrielle Angers. Together, the young policeman and the prostitute will learn that the State has its cogs and that it treats harshly those who try to jostle it. Blacklist poses a reflection on power and morality and on those who often only brandish this one to better seize that one.At the trial of a judge who was found with a prostitute, a list of customers pops up. It contains the names of some very influential judges and politicians. Then, dead bodies and death threats erupt. Jacques is the trial judge and his own life seems to be in danger...
UPC: 824255003605
EAN: 0824255003605
Languages: English
Binding: DVD
Item Condition: UsedVeryGood