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A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate about the ransom of 50 million euro.



Gad Elmaleh
Marc Tourneuil

Natacha Régnier
Diane Tourneuil

Gabriel Byrne
Dittmar Rigule

Bernard Le Coq
Antoine de Suze

Liya Kebede
Nassim

Céline Sallette
Maud Baron

Hippolyte Girardot
Raphaël Sieg

Paul Barrett
Malburry

Éric Naggar
Theo Craillon

Yann Sundberg
Boris Breton
Capital is a drama, thriller film released in 2012. Directed by Costa-Gavras, it stars Gad Elmaleh, Natacha Régnier, Gabriel Byrne. The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.
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