Killers returns to Netflix France
Published in 2017, Assassins is a Belgian thriller directed by François Troukens and Jean-François Hensgens. Worn by Olivier Gourmet, Lubna Azabal and Bouli Lanners, Assassins immerses the viewer in an investigation beyond the borders between justice and crime gradually fade away.
The film follows the character of Frank Valken (Olivier Gourmet), a master thief who, after years of avoiding capture, finds himself at the center of a sordid plan. During a robbery carefully orchestratedHis team is wrongly accused of the murder of a judge, sending them on a desperate run. Facing a relentless hunt, Valken must prove his innocence while battling the dark forces seeking to take him down.
Between police tensions and settling of scores in the belly of Brussels, Assassins represents a company corrupted by corruption networks deeply rooted. With a breathtaking pace and intense action sequences, the film manages to maintain a constant tension, while providing a critical portrait of the judicial and political system.
After being first offered in 2021, Assassins is back on Netflix France, and has already established itself in the Top 10 of the most viewed films of the moment! At the time of writing it is in sixth place in the ranking.
A story inspired by the “Brabant Killings”
Assassins is partly inspired by a series of true events that shook Belgium in the 1980s: the “Brabant Killings”, also known as the “Wallon Brabant Killings”. Between 1982 and 1985, a series of violent robberies were carried out by a group nicknamed “the crazy Brabant killers”, leaving behind a heavy toll of 28 dead and numerous injured. This mysterious gang, never identified with certainty, carried out brutal attacks, especially against supermarkets, without the motives behind these murders having been fully clarified.
Investigations carried out at the time and still today have not fully clarified the issue, fueling numerous speculations. Some argue that the Brabant massacre could be linked to this Infernal Circlesto extremist political factions or even to security services involved in wider conspiracies.
François Troukens, who himself had a criminal past before rehabilitating himself and becoming a filmmaker, draws freely from these events. The film does not claim to be an exact reconstruction of the “Brabant crimes”, but it captures their essence, in particular through the themes of manipulation, corruption and impunity that marked this dark period in Belgian history.
Source: Cine Serie
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