The Renault factory in Belgium must close down. Nobody can believe it. We follow the investigations by the director who is at the heart of the action and who interviews main politicians, the workers who violently protest and the direction. In the fiction part the president-director of Renault, Schweitzer is killed by one of the workers.
Direction
Bucquoy inserts himself into real tragedy, blurring reality and fiction.
Writing
Fictional assassination of actual CEO as cathartic worker fantasy.
Director
Jan Bucquoy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 1997 Vilvoorde closure became a symbol of EU labor betrayal, sparking massive protests across Belgium.
Bucquoy was actually sued by Renault for the fictional assassination scene, which only proved his point about corporate power.
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