The Verdict ( Het Vonnis )

The Verdict (DVD) (*)

$20.99

Original Title: Het Vonnis
Language Selections:
Dutch ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
107 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2013 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Jan Verheyen

Written By:
Jan Verheyen

Actors:
Koen De Bouw ..... Luc Segers
Johan Leysen ..... Jan De Cock
Veerle Baetens ..... Meester Teugels
Jappe Claes ..... Procureur-Generaal Vanderbiest
Jo De Meyere ..... Karel Puype
Chris Lomme ..... Louise Puype
Hendrik Aerts ..... Kenny De Groot
Viviane de Muynck ..... Rechter Van Rillaer
Wouter Hendrickx ..... Inspecteur Vercauteren
Dirk Tuypens ..... Walter Veldeman
Joke Devynck ..... Ella De Graeve
Nell Cattrysse ..... Anna Segers
Vic de Wachter ..... Minister van Justitie
Sven De Ridder ..... Jan Ravoet
Robbie Cleiren ..... Wim Devos

Synopsis:

Exposing a serious flaw in Belgium's justice system, The Verdict is a gripping courtroom thriller about morality, ethics and heartbreaking legal loopholes. Businessman Luc engages in a fight with the state when his wife's murderer is released due to a procedural error. Despondent and infuriated, Luc decides to take the law into his own hands. After dispensing his own form of justice, Luc transforms his subsequent trial into a modern-day circus. His plan: to expose the failures of the judicial system to a jury of the people and arouse their outrage.

A clever and tense courtroom drama, writer/director Jan Verheyen's highly watchable film focuses on a flaw in the Belgian legal system that allows a killer to go free and sets an honest on a path of vengeance and self-destruction. The Verdict (Het vonnis) - a rather obvious and much-used title for a courtroom tale - is impressively shot and staged, though does settle into its courtroom structure fairly on, despite a finely and imaginatively staged series of opening sequences.

A man takes on his country's justice system after a procedural error that released his wife's murderer drives him to take matters into his own hands.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 11 January, 2015.

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