LARGO WINCH / LARGO WINCH

LARGO WINCH

Ou of Competition > Miki Manojlović Retrospective

Nerio Winch is a billionare, who is the founder and majority shareholder of the powerful and sprawling W group. One day, he is found to be drowned. Everyone at Group W thinks that Nerio had no family. But he had a secret he kept well-hidden: a son, Largo, adopted nearly thirty years before from a Bosnian orphanage. Largo is living the life of an adventurer and lands in Brazil, where he rescues a pretty girl from some thugs who are molesting her. After Largo and the girl have sex, she injects him with a drug and sets Largo up to be found by police. He is sent to prison. Meanwhile, back at Group W, the news of Nerio's heir has the board riled up. At the same time, Mikhal Korsky, another industrialist, plans to make a takeover bid by buying up available shares of the company. Back in Brazil Largo attempts to escape from prison at the same time that his father's driver/bodyguard Freddy has come to pay Largo's way out of prison. They both escape. As he needs to prove that he is Nerio's heir, Largo has to get the shares he owns, which will make him the owner of the company. But he gets caught in a shootout in his attempt and loses his shares. He realizes that he is in the middle of a plot by Ferguson, his father's trusted second-in-command, whose aim is to take over the company.

Jérôme Salle is a French film director and screenwriter born in 1971.  Salle has directed the films Anthony Zimmer, Largo Winch, and Largo Winch (Tome 2). His film Zulu has been selected as the closing film at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.