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This outstanding documentary comes shattering all notions we may have on the French Connection and hurls us into the myths of this internationally famous drug ring.
It revisits the organization’s golden age with the unique testimonies of dealers, gangsters, chemists, and smugglers, along that of the greatest French, Canadian and American cops of the time, who, pressured by Washington, cooperated to try to stop this worldwide heroin traffic.
For the first time ever, Edouard Rimbaud, the infamous repentant, has agreed to speak out openly and reveal major information on the shady side of this Mafiosi organization.
Beyond a documentary, this film is a thorough account on the advent of the drug market in the seventies—a true social epidemic that is still in the limelight: thirty years after its fall, the story of French Connection is more than ever of current interest!

France - 2007 - 52 mn - Betacam Digital • 16/9 - Colour

Director Bernard Nicolas Writer François Missen Camera Jean-Pierre Vesperini, Sylvain Chamaillard Sound Jean-Marc Blanzat Editing Erika Barroche Music Christophe Moutot

Production Les Films du Soleil, 39, av. de Saint-Barnabé, 13012 Marseille, France Tél : +33 (0)4 9149 1400 Fax : +33 (0)4 9134 2470 with the  participation of Canal+, Planète, Télévision Suisse Romande / Radio Télévision Suisse, France 3 Méditerranée

Sales Les Films du Soleil, 39, av. de Saint-Barnabé, 13012 Marseille, France Tél : +33 (0)4 9149 1400 Fax : +33 (0)4 9134 2470