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Kopfjagd (1995)

Kopfjagd poster
Directed by
Éric Civanyan
Genre
spy film
Country
Germany, France
Runtime
1h 26m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A thirty-year-old headhunter is hired to recruit a Japanese computer expert for a big American client. With the help of a marine biology professor, she succeeds, but the expert turns out to be a spy working for the competition.

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What happens

Prise de têtes est un téléfilm franco-allemand de 1995, réalisé par Éric Civanyan. Nathalie Groc (Valentine Varela), trente ans, chasseuse de têtes émérite pour une agence de recrutement. Elle est chargée de débaucher un as de l'informatique japonais, pour un gros client américain. Grâce à l'aide d'un professeur de biologie marine (Max Tidof) elle parviendra à le faire engager mais celui-ci s’avérera être un espion à la solde de la concurrence... (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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