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Le Viol (2017)

Le Viol (2017)

Drama TV Movie
Release Date: 2017, September 19
Directors: Alain Tasma
Countries: Belgium, France
Production: France 3, EuropaCorp Television, Fontana Productions
Cast: Clotilde Courau, Patrick Mille, Satya Dusaugey, Stéphane Rideau, Hippolyte Girardot, Yannick Choirat, Romane Bohringer, Pierre Andrau, Bérangère McNeese, Sam Karmann, Camille Sansterre, Nathanaël Maïni

Overview:

21 August 1974. In Marseille, two Belgian tourists, Nicole and Malia, are savagely attacked and raped by three men. Their attackers claim that the women consented and are allowed to remain free. Though their friends and family advise them to forget the ordeal, Nicole and Malia instead decide to fight. Helped by their lawyer, Gisèle Halimi, they request that the attackers be judged at the assize court. On 8 May 1978, after a long battle, they finally obtain justice. A trial which made history as until then rape had been considered simply as a misdemeanor, whereas now it became a crime.