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THE IMPOSTER

By Bart LAYTON

Documentary - Completed 2011

This is the incredible story of one of the greatest deceptions of all time, in which a 23 year old Frenchman convinces the authorities and a grieving family that he is their lost child. But all is not as it seems....

Festivals
& Awards

Miami IFF 2012

Grand Jury Award

Deauville American FF 2012

Docs de l'Oncle Sam

Warsaw FF 2012

Documentaries

- Year of production
- 2011
- Genres
- Documentary, Drama
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 91 mn
- Director(s)
- Bart LAYTON
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-80AD-0000-4-0000-0000-P
- EIDR
- 10.5240/68D5-3BBA-5D9C-7C87-1487-R
- Producer(s)
- Dimitri DOGANIS (Raw), John BATTSEK (Passion), Simon CHINN (Passion)
- Synopsis
- In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappears without trace from San Antonio, Texas. Three years later the boy is found alive halfway across the world in Spain with accounts of a horrifying kidnap ordeal. His family is overjoyed to bring him home - but all is not quite as it seems. This is the incredible story of one of the greatest deceptions of all time, in which a 23 year old Frenchman FREDERIC BOURDIN convinces the authorities and a grieving family that he is their lost child. However, the longer Bourdin lives with the family, the more he begins to wonder how a mother could fail to know her own son, or a sister her own brother. Feeling increasingly trapped by his own ruse, THE IMPOSTER begins to question whether in fact HEis the one being conned.

THE IMPOSTER

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