Mortel transfert (2001)
Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix

Comedy / Drama / Thriller
aka: Mortal Transfer

Film Synopsis

Michel Durand is a psychoanalyst who is no longer surprised by anything his patients tell him.  Not even the anxious utterances of a heckled maths teacher or the surrealist ramblings of kleptomaniac Olga Kubler can keep him awake anymore.  Life offers no more surprises for Michel, or so he thinks.  When he stirs from one of his more justifiable mid-consultation naps, he finds Madame Kubler lying dead in his office.  Is it possible that, driven by some subconscious neurotic impulse, he killed her in his sleep?  In a panic, Michel has just one thought: to dispose of the body.  All appears to be well, until the dead woman's husband, a crooked promoter named Max Kubler, puts in an appearance...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
  • Script: Jean-Jacques Beineix, Jean-Pierre Gattegno (novel)
  • Cinematographer: Benoît Delhomme
  • Music: Reinhardt Wagner
  • Cast: Jean-Hugues Anglade (Michel Durand), Hélène de Fougerolles (Olga Kubler), Predrag Manojlovic (Erostrate), Valentina Sauca (Hélène Maier), Robert Hirsch (Armand Zlibovic), Yves Rénier (Max Kubler), Catherine Mouchet (The maths teacher), Denis Podalydès (Inspector Chapireau), Jean-Pierre Becker (Jacques Preco), Riton Liebman (The disc-jockey), Vantha Talisman (Mai Li), Laurent Bateau (Young depressive man), Cyril Raffaelli (Thief), Estelle Desanges (Michel Durand's mother), Matteo Vallon (Michel Durand's father), Pierre-Louis Monnot (Michel Durand as a child), Reinhardt Wagner (The blind man), Fabien Béhar (Seller at Bernstein's), Anne Loiret (Traffic warden), André Chaumeau (Librarian)
  • Country: France / Germany
  • Language: French
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 122 min
  • Aka: Mortal Transfer

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