Stanislaff Graff, a rich industrialist with a wife and a lover, is kidnapped brutally from his limousine on the eve of his visit to China as part of the entourage of the French president. The kidnappers demand a fifty million euro ransom. In order to prove they are serious, they cut off one of his fingers. What follows is a terrifying sparring match between kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which Graff is the director. The main question for the board: is a human life worth more than fifty million euros? Will they be able to get that amount of money together in time anyway? Graff – a powerful role by Yvan Attal – degenerates physically and mentally in imprisonment. In the meantime, the press dredges up the businessman’s past with revelations that are especially painful for his wife.
Rapt is a tight ‘polar’, the French variation on the nail-biting thriller.
Film details
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 2009
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 125"
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
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