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The Imposter 2012

The Imposter is a 2012 documentary film about the 1997 case of Frédéric Bourdin, who impersonated a boy who had disappeared in 1994, claiming to have been kidnapped for sexual abuse and transported from the boy's home in Texas to Spain. His impersonation fooled several authorities and even many of the boy's family members, even though he was seven years older than the missing boy, had brown eyes and dark hair (rather than the boy's blue eyes and blond hair). The impersonation was discovered only by a private investigator – who brought his own misguided hypothesis into the story.

The Imposter (2012) movie information

Director: Bart Layton
Stars: Adam O'Brian, Frederic Bourdin and Frédéric Bourdin
Genres: Documentary | Biography
Country: UK
Language: English
Release Date: 24 August 2012 (Ireland)

The Imposter (2012) movie storyline

A documentary centered on a young Frenchman who convinces a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who went missing for 3 years.Bart Layton‘s The Imposter might technically be a documentary, but it feels like a narrative feature. The film tells the story of a Texas family whose 13-year-old son goes missing, only to show up three and a half years later in Spain with a story about kidnap and torture. He is returned home to his family where he lived for a few months before it was revealed that he was an imposter — a frenchman named Frédéric Bourdin. This is not a spoiler, as the film is told not from the family’s point of view, but Barclay’s. We learn how and why he ended up in San Antonio, Texas, but even then not everything is what it seems. The story is constructed using talking head interviews with the imposter, the family, an FBI agent, us embassy officials — practically everyone involved in the true story. Layton brilliantly constructs recreations (a la Man On Wire) of the story from start to finish, which is fantastically cinematic. We also get some actual home movie footage cut in as well.