When powerful businessman Stanislas Graff (Attal) is kidnapped outside his luxurious home on the eve of his visit to China accompanying the French president, it marks the beginning of a terrifying ordeal involving several weeks of isolation, humiliation and torture. The kidnappers' demand for 50 million Euros ransom in exchange for Graff causes a dilemma for his company, his family and the police, posing the question: What is one man's life really worth?

Cut off from the outside world and receiving only the barest of information from his captors, Graff struggles to understand why those who claim to care for and even love him are so reluctant to pay up. Meanwhile, a police investigation into his private life has begun to reveal unsavoury details relating to numerous adulterous affairs and huge gambling debts, causing a media frenzy and untold emotional pain for his wife (Consigny), children and colleagues. As Graff's mental and physical well being degenerates in captivity, those on the outside begin to discover that the real Stanislas Graff may not be the man they think he is.

Described as "a taut thriller," by Philip French in The Observer and "a tense hostage thriller with a difference" by Time Out, Rapt is an updated adaptation of the real-life 1978 kidnapping of French-Belgian industrialist and millionaire playboy Edouard-Jean Empain that features strong performances from Yvan Attal (Leaving; Munich) and co-star Anne Consigny (Mesrine; The Diving Bell And The Butterfly). Written and directed by multi-award winning Belgian-born director Lucas Belvaux (La raison du plus faible; Trilogy), the film was this year nominated for four prestigious César Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (Attal) and Best Supporting Actress (Consigny).

Rapt (cert. 15) will be released on DVD by Chelsea Films on 13th September 2010 at the RRP of £12.99. No extras have been detailed.