The Imposter(Movie, 2012)

Name: The Imposter
Genre: Documentary, Mystery
Released: 2012
Duration: T01:39:00
Rating: 3.7

| 1h 39min | Genres: Documentary, Mystery

Rating: 3.7/5 (with 321 votes)

The Imposter is a 2012 documentary film about the 1997 case of a French confidence trickster Frédéric Bourdin, who pretended to be Nicholas Patrick Barclay, an American boy who had disappeared in Texas at the age of 13 in 1994. The film was directed by Bart Layton. It mainly includes interviews with Bourdin but also with members of Barclay's family, as well as archive television news footage and reenacted dramatic sequences. ()

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About The Imposter

In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later he is found alive thousands of miles away in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.

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Trailer for The Imposter + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

The Imposter(Trailer, 1:38:38)

Additional Information

Official websites:

imposterfilm.com

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Production country: United Kingdom (UK)

Made by: Passion Pictures, Red Box Films, RAW

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 23 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 07/13/2012

Cast: Frédéric Bourdin, Ellenie Salvo González, Ronald Kukulies, Nils Brunkhorst

Director: Bart Layton

Film Editor: Andrew Hulme

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Der Blender - The Imposter"

"L'Impostore - The Imposter"

Keywords: identity theft, fake identity, biography, child kidnapping, disappearance, stolen identity, investigator, missing child, missing son, kidnapping, investigation

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The Imposter(Movie, 2012)

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