The Informant (2013 film)

2013 French film

The Informant

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French| Gibraltar
Directed by| Julien Leclercq
Screenplay by| Abdel Raouf Dafri
Based on| L'Aviseur
by Marc Fievet
Produced by| Dimitri Rassam
Peter Berg
Starring| Gilles Lellouche
Tahar Rahim
Riccardo Scamarcio
Elizabeth Rohm
Peter Berg
Cinematography| Thierry Pouget
Mika Cotellon
Edited by| Mickael Dumontier
Arthur Tarnowski
Music by| Clinton Shorter
Distributed by| SND Films (France)

Release dates

* 24 August 2013 (2013-08-24) (Angoulême)
* 11 September 2013 (2013-09-11) (France)

Running time

| 110 minutes
Countries| France
Canada
Language| French
Budget| $22.8 million [1]
Box office| $2.3 million [2]

The Informant (French: Gibraltar), also known as Border Informant, is a 2013 French crime thriller film written and directed by Julien Leclercq.[3][4]

## Plot

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Marc Duval is a bar owner in Gibraltar. He is cornered by his creditors, so he agrees to become a paid informant for the French customs to report drug trafficking. He quickly finds himself drawn into events more and more dangerous and ends up being prosecuted as number two in a major drugs operation.

## Cast

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* Gilles Lellouche as Marc Duval
* Tahar Rahim as Redjani Belimane
* Riccardo Scamarcio as Mario / Claudio Pasco Lanfredi
* Raphaëlle Agogué as Clara Duval
* Mélanie Bernier as Cécile Duval
* Philippe Nahon as Glacose
* Aidan Devine as Bobby Sims
* Raymond Cruz as Lance
* Peter Berg as Traveler 1
* Ralph Brown as French Prime Minister
* David Ortiz as GIGN 1
* Sean Avery as GIGN 2
* Michael Beach as David Patrick
* Alex Wolff as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
* Rachel Brosnahan as Sarah
* Christopher O'Shea as News Reporter
* Vincent Curatola as Mike
* Elizabeth Rohm as US Embassy 1
* Kevin Chapman as Vincent
* Oliver Cotton as Barry
* Erica McDermott as News Reporter 1
* Vlasta Vrána as Nichols
* Alban Lenoir as Philippe
* Joe Cobden as Agent Carlyle
* Youssef Hajdi as The Messenger

## Locations

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The action takes place mostly in the area around La Línea, Gibraltar, and Algeciras in Andalucía, Southern Spain, and in the Strait that separates the Spanish mainland from Morocco. Marc's bar is opposite the entrance to the marketplace in La Línea, the frontier town with Gibraltar. Other scenes feature Algeciras port and the Gibraltar border and airport. It is the mid-1980s, after the Spanish transition to democracy and before the sophistication of the drugs trade across the Strait became more complex.

## Reception

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Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 25%, based on eight reviews, with an average score of 4.75/10.[5]

## References

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1. ^ "Gibraltar". JP's Box-Office.
2. ^ "The Informant (2013)". Box Office Mojo.
3. ^ Jordan Mintzer (September 11, 2013). "The Informant (Gibraltar): Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
4. ^ Geoffrey Macnab (April 24, 2014). "The Informant, film review: Brooding thriller with flavour of The French Connection 2". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-06-18. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
5. ^ "The Informant (Gibraltar) (2014)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved May 24, 2020.

## External links

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* The Informant at IMDb

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Films directed by Julien Leclercq

* Chrysalis (2007)
* The Assault (2010)
* The Informant (2013)
* The Crew (2015)
* The Bouncer (2018)
* Earth and Blood (2020)
* Sentinelle (2021)

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