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Jean-Claude Grumberg has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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Once upon a time, a poor woodcutter and his wife lived in a great forest. Cold, hunger, poverty, and a war raging all around them meant their lives were very hard. One day, the woodcutter's wife rescues a baby. A baby girl thrown from one of the many trains that constantly pass through the forest. This baby, this "most precious of cargoes", will transform the lives of the poor woodcutter's wife and her husband, as well as those whose paths the child will cross—including the man who threw her from the train. And some will try to protect her, whatever the cost. Their story will reveal the worst and the best in the hearts of men.
Dir. Michel Hazanavicius · With Dominique Blanc, Grégory Gadebois, Denis Podalydès
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.
Dir. Costa-Gavras · With José Garcia, Karin Viard, Ulrich Tukur
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit priest, Riccardo Fontana, but their protestations fall on deaf ears in the Vatican.
Dir. Costa-Gavras · With Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe
The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.
Dir. Costa-Gavras · With Gad Elmaleh, Natacha Régnier, Gabriel Byrne
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