Undercover (2021)

Original title

Enquête sur un scandale d'État

Directed by

Thierry de Peretti

Genre

thriller film

Country

France

Runtime

2h 03m

Rated

U

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 121 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A journalist at a French newspaper investigates a whistleblower who claims that the head of the national narcotics unit is involved in illegal activities. The film follows their tense collaboration as they work to expose the scandal.

tensesuspensefulgrittyfast-pacedseriousdarkinvestigativeurgent

What happens

Enquête sur un scandale d'État (Investigation into a state scandal), is a French crime thriller that was released to film festivals in 2021 and to wider audiences in February 2022. In Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom it was released as "Undercover". It is directed by Thierry de Peretti from his own screenplay (co-written with Jeanne Aptekman), and although it is a work of fiction, it is inspired by the real life case of François Thierry, and the book L'Infiltré (The Informant), written by the whistle-blower and drug crime infiltrator, Hubert Avoine, and Emmanuel Fansten, investigative journalist at the newspaper, Libération. It stars Pio Marmaï, as Stéphane Vilner, an investigative journalist at Libération who writes the story of Hubert Antoine (played by Roschdy Zem), the whistle-blower and high-level police informant who breaks the story of illegal activity by the head of the Narcotics Unit, Jacques Billard, played by Vincent Lindon. The film conveys the intense relationship of Hubert and Stéphane, whose roles parallel the real-life co-authors of L'Infiltré, Hubert Avoine and Emmanuel Fansten. The question driving the journalist and his colleagues at Libération is, "how far should the state go to try to break the illegal drugs trade?" (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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