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Heartbeat Detector is a french film of genre Drama directed by Nicolas Klotz with Mathieu Amalric
Heartbeat Detector (2007)
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Add to a movie listHeartbeat Detector (French: La Question humaine) is a 2007 French film directed by Nicolas Klotz and starring Mathieu Amalric. The film is based on the 2000 novel by François Emmanuel.
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The film centers on Kessler, a psychologist in the human resources department of the French branch of a long-established German firm. The firm has recently dismissed 50% of its workforce on criteria devised by Kessler. Rose, the vice-president of the company, requests Kessler to look into whether Jüst, the CEO is fit to do his job. The CEO discovers Kessler is investigating him and tells him that Rose, whose previous name was Kraus, has a Nazi past.Actors
Mathieu Amalric
(Simon Kessler)
Michael Lonsdale
(Mathias Jüst)
Édith Scob
(Lucy Jüst)
Lou Castel
(Arie Neumann)
Laetitia Spigarelli
(Louisa)
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