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Completed - FRENCH, ENGLISH - Action/Adventure - 90 minutes

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2012 (Premiere)
Full history

Year of production : 2011

Director(s) : Fred GARSON
Writer(s) : Didier LACOSTE, Pauline ROCAFULL
Cast : Danie MARTIN, Laurent LUCAS, Natacha REGNIER, Patrick DESCAMPS, Stephan WOJTOWICZ

Producer(s) : Denis PONCET, Matthieu BELGHITTI

Synopsis

Northern Nigeria. Two French scientists working for an environmental NGO disappear during a mission in the region of Arlit. Hugo Geoffroy, second-in-command of a specialist emergency unit of the French police, and Thomas Villiers, his boss, are sent to negotiate for the hostages' freedom.
The same day in Niamey, however, negotiations get underway between the Nigerian government and Urania, a giant French uranium company, with a view to renewing French mining concessions.
At Urania's request, researcher Dr Hélène Bauer flies to Nigeria, where she soon realises that Hugo is playing a double game. Now Hugo and Hélène find themselves swept up in a conspiracy orchestrated by the Chinese to sour relations between Nigeria and France, and have to work as a team to try and save the two hostages. But what is the life of two ecology scientists worth when France's highest interests are at stake?

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Country(ies) : FRANCE


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