Wildcats

Wildcats

2017 · 93 min · ★ 7.3 · Drama, Thriller

Orphan, Oskar lives with Elvis and Fanny Egger, his guardians. Oskar is waiting for one thing, the majority, to finally be able to go to Zimbabwe and start a new life. While Oskar strives to raise money to get there, Elvis takes Oskar's success and makes it cost him to graduate. The balance of power is becoming more and more tense, swinging into a violence that will push Oskar to definitively abandon childhood, and Elvis, to fall the mask of his ambition and his madness.

Directed by Robin Erard · Written by Robin Erard

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Zacharie Chasseriaud Oskar Petignat
Jonathan Zaccaï Elvis Egger
Isaline Prévost Zoé Roduit
Michel Voïta Michel Huguenin
Sabine Timoteo Nathalie Roduit
Bérénice Baôo Fanny Egger
Cédric Djédjé Damien Donzé
Hervé Sogne Didier Roduit
Fanny Blanchard La directrice de l'instruction publique

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