
The Connection
Marseille 1975. To stop a dangerous drug lord, you need a dangerous cop.
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12/3/2014Runtime
135 minsOverview
Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is given a rapid-fire tutorial on the ins and outs of an out-of-control drug trade. Pierre's wildly ambitious mission is to take on the French Connection, a highly organized operation that controls the city's underground heroin economy and is overseen by the notorious —and reputedly untouchable— Gaetan Zampa. Fearless, determined and willing to go the distance, Pierre plunges into an underworld world of insane danger and ruthless criminals.

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A gritty, procedural crime thriller where an idealistic magistrate takes on a sprawling drug empire in 1970s Marseille, grinding through bureaucracy and danger with relentless determination. It's less about heroic triumph and more about the exhausting, costly war against systemic criminality.
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Jean Dujardin
Judge Pierre Michel

Gilles Lellouche
Gaëtan 'Tany' Zampa

Céline Sallette
Jacqueline Michel

Mélanie Doutey
Christiane Zampa

Benoît Magimel
'Le Fou'

Guillaume Gouix
Inspector José Alvarez

Bruno Todeschini
'Le Banquier'

Féodor Atkine
Gaston Deferre

Moussa Maaskri
Franky Manzoni

Pierre Lopez
Jean Paci

Eric Collado
Robert

Cyril Lecomte
Marco Da Costa
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