"Hangar" is a new agency whose purpose is to carry out missions even too sensitive for the police or intelligence services. The agency must eliminate a German female terrorist by the name of Birgitt Haas. The murder is to be disguised as a crime of passion, so an agent must lure Birgitt into falling in love.
Acting
Noiret and Rochefort's weary, complicit chemistry.
Direction
Heynemann's cold, methodical dismantling of romantic tropes.
Writing
The queasy procedural of orchestrated intimacy.
Director
Laurent Heynemann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the waning years of European leftist terrorism, reflecting real anxieties about the Baader-Meinhof generation.
Heynemann adapted this from his own novel, written while working in television—hence the institutional cynicism.
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