Legal Aid
– At the age of forty, Antoine Lahoud is still defending petty criminals who are entitled only to lega..
At the age of forty, Antoine Lahoud is still defending petty criminals who are entitled only to legal aid. He still has a quixotic notion of his mission but, lately, his little income and his arduous working conditions have been eroding his idealism. So, when Henry Marsac, a leading (but seemingly corrupt), professional colleague, offers him to work on bigger and more lucrative cases, he ends up accepting. Little does he know what Marsac is up to...
06 May 2009
French, English
Hannelore Cayre
Hannelore Cayre (novel), Hannelore Cayre (screenplay)
Roschdy Zem, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Mathias Mlekuz, Sophie Guillemin
At the age of forty, Antoine Lahoud is still defending petty criminals who are entitled only to legal aid. He still has a quixotic notion of his mission but, lately, his little income and his arduous working conditions have been eroding his idealism. So, when Henry Marsac, a leading (but seemingly corrupt), professional colleague, offers him to work on bigger and more lucrative cases, he ends up accepting. Little does he know what Marsac is up to...