Characters & Themes
La Machine (1977) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1977 · 100 mins · French
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- Starring
- Gérard Blain, Michel Delahaye, Hélène Surgère, Sonia Saviange, Paul Vecchiali, Marie-Claude Treilhou
After Pierre Lentier, a solitary factory worker in his thirties, murders an eight‑year‑old child under gruesome circumstances, he is quickly condemned to death. The film follows his marginal existence on society’s fringe and paints a stark, uncompromising critique of capital punishment and the media’s manipulative exploitation of such cases.
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