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Mistaken Identity (1995)

Mistaken Identity poster
Original title
Erreur sur la personne
Directed by
Gilles Noël
Genre
drama film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 35m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A deaf police officer returns to work after a head injury. He investigates a woman who robs men to fund a theater production.

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What happens

Mistaken Identity (French: Erreur sur la personne), also sometimes billed as Mistaken Person, is a Canadian thriller film, directed by Gilles Noël and released in 1996. The film stars Michel Côté as Charles Renard, a police officer returning to work for the first time since being left hearing impaired by a bullet wound to the head. He is assigned to investigate Maria (Macha Grenon), an actress who is robbing men to finance a stage production of August Strindberg's Miss Julie. The film's cast also includes Paul Doucet, Marie-Andrée Corneille, Robert Gravel, Paul Savoie and Luc Picard. At the 17th Genie Awards, Corneille was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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