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Sleepless Night is a french film of genre Drama directed by Frédéric Jardin released in USA on 11 may 2012 with Adel Bencherif
Sleepless Night (2011)
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Add to a movie listSleepless Night (French: Nuit Blanche) is a 2011 French-Belgian-Luxembourgian thriller film directed and co-written by Frederic Jardin. The film stars Tomer Sisley as Vincent, a police detective who plans to rob a pair of drug couriers when he finds that the cocaine he has is owned by nightclub owner and drug dealer Jose Marciano Serge Riaboukine. Marciano kidnaps Vincent's son with the demand that he will be returned if his cocaine is returned. Just as Vincent finalizes the deal, he finds that his cocaine has vanished.how will he solve is the rest of the story
The film premiered in 2011 at the Toronto International Film Festival and has received positive reviews from critics.
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Vincent, policier, dérobe un gros sac de cocaïne à des trafiquants, mais il est identifié au cours de l’opération. Les truands prennent alors son fils en otage. Vincent doit faire l’échange - son fils contre le sac - dans une immense boîte de nuit tenue par les bandits. La nuit qui commence sera la plus longue de sa vie et peut-être même la dernière.Actors
Adel Bencherif
(Abel)
Tomer Sisley
(Vincent)
Julien Boisselier
(Lacombe)
Lizzie Brocheré
(Vignali)
Birol Ünel
(Yilmaz)
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