Bullhead (2011)

Original title

Rundskop

Directed by

Michaël R. Roskam

Genre

drama film

Country

Belgium

Runtime

2h 09m

Rated

R

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 392 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young farmer in Belgium gets pulled into the illegal hormone trade in the cattle industry. A murder and a buried secret from his past force him to face violent consequences.

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What happens

Bullhead (Dutch: Rundskop) is a 2011 Belgian crime film written and directed by Michaël R. Roskam and starring Matthias Schoenaerts. The film is about farmers being paid or threatened by organised crime "hormone mafia" to use growth hormones on cattle, although the practice is prohibited by law. Jacky Vanmarsenille, a young Limburgish farmer, is approached by his veterinarian to make a deal with a West-Flemish beef trader to use growth hormones on his cattle. But the murder of a federal policeman, and an unexpected confrontation with a mysterious secret from Jacky's past, set in motion a chain of events with far-reaching consequences. The film was one of several nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Foreign Language Film in 2012. It lost to A Separation. The actors speak mainly in Truiens, a Limburgish dialect. The film is loosely based on the 1995 murder of Karel Van Noppen, a government livestock inspector in Belgium. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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