Black (2008 film)

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Directed by Pierre Laffargue
Screenplay byLucio Mad
Gábor Rassov
Produced byMoctar Bâ
Lauranne Bourrachot
Marco Cherqui
Starring MC Jean Gab'1
Carole Karemera
CinematographyPatrick Ghiringhelli
Alexandre Tyl
Edited byCéline Kélépikis
Music byAline Afanoukoe
Vincent Quittard
Jean-Jacques Mondoloni
Julien Lefèvre
Luc Porthault
Production
company
Chic films
Distributed byWide Management
Release dates
  • June 2008 (2008-06)(Avignon Film Festival)
  • 15 July 2009 (2009-07-15)(France)
Running time
111 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Black is a 2008 French blaxploitation film directed by Pierre Laffargue. [1]

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Black, a Frenchman with African roots, commits in France a heist with some complices. The early arrival of alarmed police kindles a shooting. Black's complices are killed and he can only scarcely escape by jumping from a bridge onto a running train. When he is all alone in his hideout, he receives a long-distance call from a cousin in Africa. Black is asked to rob diamonds from a bank. His cousin makes him believe this was easily done.

Black travels consequently to Africa. Once there, he has to realise that the responsible Africans he intends to rob are more sophisticated than he had thought. Moreover, a group of Russian soldiers of fortune also wants to steal the diamonds. Black outsmarts them and retrieves the diamonds during their holdup. Unfortunately his cousin tries to betray him. That is his cousin's downfall.

Now all on his own, Black is caught by a feisty female police agent. Soon both are hunted by vengeful former Russian commandos. While trying to elude, they get entangled in a local mystic prophecy and their struggle is lifted to a higher, supernatural level.

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References

  1. "Black". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2013-10-08.