Scribe(La Mécanique de l'ombre)
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Belgium, France · 2016
1h 33m
Director Thomas Kruithof
Starring François Cluzet, Denis Podalydès, Sami Bouajila, Simon Abkarian
Genre Action, Thriller
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Two years after a burn-out, Duval is still unemployed. Contacted by an enigmatic businessman, he is offered a simple and well-paid job: transcribing telephone tapping. Duval accepts financially without questioning the purpose of the organization that employs him. Precipitated at the heart of a political plot, he must face the brutal mechanics of the underground world of the secret services.
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