The Ax

Bruno loved his job as a middle manager at a paper company, but optimistically views being laid off as an opportunity. After two years of searching for a comparable position, optimism turns to desperation. His wife works two jobs, and their marriage slowly deteriorates as their hold on the middle class slips away. Bruno concocts a grimly audacious plan to identify and kill his fellow job applicants so that he is the only qualified person left.

• Costa-GavrasDirector
• Costa-GavrasScreenplay
• Jean-Claude GrumbergScreenplay
• Armand AmarOriginal Music Composer

• José GarciaBruno Davert
• Karin ViardMarlène Davert
• Ulrich TukurGérard Hutchinson
• Olivier GourmetRaymond Machefer
• Yvon BackEtienne Barnet
• Thierry HancisseInspector Kesler
• Olga GrumbergIris Thompson
• Geordy CouturiauMaxime Davert
• Christa ThéretBetty Davert
• Yolande MoreauPost Office Clerk
• Dieudonné KabongoQuinlan Longus
• Jean-Pierre GosGarage Owner