Movie theater. “Borgo”, an excellent prison thriller inspired by a Corsican news item

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Director Stéphane Demoustier recounts the more or less conscious shift of a prison guard towards banditry in “Borgo”. A gripping film, led by Hafsia Herzi. In theaters this Wednesday April 17, 2024.

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After The girl with the bracelet (2019) , Stéphane Demoustier paints a new portrait of a mysterious woman in Borgo. This is not a trial film, but a prison film.

The heroine, Melissa, is a young guard named in Corsica in Borgo prison, one of the rare penitentiary establishments in France with a neighborhood where inmates move freely. In Unit 2 where she arrives, it is said that it is the prisoners who…

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