Cash Truck
Action! If there’s one word associated with cinema, the tension of movie sets, and the focus of attention, it’s this one. Action is very often at the heart of popular cinema: Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock hands in Safety Last! (1923), Cary Grant threatened and strafed by a plane in North by Northwest (1959), Franka Potente gasping for air in Run Lola Run (1998)... Westerns, swashbuckler films, martial arts or adventure flicks, thrillers, all these genres rely on action—sometimes frenetic, sometimes meticulously measured.
From movies by Sergei Eisenstein to Gilles Carle, from John Ford to John Boorman and Werner Herzog, via Paul Verhoeven, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook, Érik Canuel, and Nicolas Winding Refn, this series will take you through the full range of emotions, from laughter to thrills, from fear to satisfaction.
Vigilant, a small cash transportation company, is in crisis. Three of its armoured trucks have been robbed in the last year. All three crews were ruthlessly slaughtered. The company is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy and its employees are on edge. Some even suggest the gang has a man working inside the company. So, times are hard when Alexandre Demarre turns up one morning at Vigilant's headquarters to start his first day with the company. Job seeker, cop, armed robber or something else entirely... Who is he and what does he want?
Nicolas Boukhrief
Nicolas Boukhrief is a French film director, screenwriter and actor. A member of the Starfix magazine original team in the 1980s, and a jack-of-all-trades at Canal+ in the following decade, he has entirely devoted himself to directing and screenwriting since his third feature film, Cash Truck (Le convoyeur), released in 2004.
