# Operation Duval - Das Geheimprotokoll (2016)

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**Original title**: *La Mécanique de l'ombre*
**Runtime**: 93 min
**Genres**: Action, Thriller
**Directed by**: Thomas Kruithof
**Written by**: Yann Gozlan, Marc Syrigas, Thomas Kruithof
**Starring**: François Cluzet, Denis Podalydès, Sami Bouajila, Simon Abkarian, Alba Rohrwacher, Philippe Résimont

> *Some things cannot be unheard.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Rain taps the window of a seventh-floor apartment in winter.  
Duval types in silence, headphones on, pages piling beneath a flickering desk lamp.  
Feels like a Polanski thriller with the dread turned up and the light turned off.

**Mood tags**: dread, paranoid, slow-burn

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