UCCA Beijing

THE MINISTER

2013.3.24
14:00

Cinema Arts

SYNOPSIS

Director: Pierre Schoeller

Region: France

Year of Production: 2011

Running Time: 115 min

Genre: Drama

Language: French with English and Chinese subtitles

The Minister for Transport, Bertrand Saint-Jean, is woken in the middle of the night by his personal private secretary. A bus has crashed into a ravine. He goes there, he has no choice. Thus begins the odyssey of a State official through an increasingly complex and hostile world. Speed, power struggles, chaos, economic crisis… In the frantic chain of events, one emergency replaces another.