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Black for Remembrance (1995)

Black for Remembrance (1995)

Thriller Mystery
Release Date: 1995, August 9
Directors: Jean-Pierre Mocky
Countries: Switzerland, Germany, France
Production: Odessa Films, Koala Films, France 2 Cinéma, M6 Films, Les Productions JMH, Neue Bioskop Film
Cast: Samuel Dupuy, Matthias Habich, Dominique Zardi, Jane Birkin, Benoît Régent, Jean-François Stévenin, Marina Rollman, Sabine Azéma, Alain Fourès, Vanessa Larré, Bénédicte Loyen, Jany Holt

Overview:

This French thriller begins with a flashback to a small village dance where a six-year-old girl is kidnapped and killed. Seventeen years later the murder remains unsolved. The girl's parents Caroline and Chris have gone on with separate lives Caroline remarried and had another daughter while Chris became an alcoholic. The two are thrown back together when each begin receiving strange messages that imply their daughter has returned from the dead for vengeance. They contact a police detective (the lover of Caroline's best friend) who finds the case intriguing and decides to reopen it. Unfortunately, as soon as he begins questioning the old suspects, people begin to die.