BLACK

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By Pierre LAFFARGUE

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Action/Adventure - Completed 2009

- Year of production
- 2009
- Genres
- Action/Adventure
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Duration
- 115 mn
- Director(s)
- Pierre LAFFARGUE
- Cast
- Mc Jean GAB'1, Carole KAREMERA, Anton YAKOVLEV, François LEVANTAL
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-BF30-0000-Y-0000-0000-9
- EIDR
- 10.5240/A486-3C90-BC4F-36D8-231B-5
- Producer(s)
- Marco CHERQUI (Chic FIlms), Lauranne BOURRACHOT (Chic Films)
- Synopsis
- Black is a Senegalese bank-robber born and raised in France who’s getting over a disastrous heist in which he lost nearly all of his men. He’s seriously thinking of going straight when his cousin Lamine calls him from Dakar. An easy coup awaits them, a briefcase has just been deposited in the bank where he works, a briefcase full of diamonds.
  Black assembles a new gang and boards a flight to Africa, where things are never as simple as they seem, and where he’s never set foot. Everybody wants to get their hands on the diamonds: the corrupt bank manager, an arms dealer suffering from suppurating psoriasis and a gang of mercenaries led by Viktor Ouliakov, on holiday from Chechen.
  Arrested, quite literally, in his tracks by Pamela Jones, a disturbingly beautiful Interpol agent, Black will progressively team up with her. Together they go through a magical initiation ritual in the heart of the jungle and Black returns transformed…