Diamant 13 is a 2009 French-Belgian-Luxembourgian film noir co-written and directed by Gilles Béhat. The screenplay is based on Hugues Pagan's novel L'Étage des Morts. The film was nominated for a Magritte Award in the category of Best Original Score for Frédéric Vercheval in 2011.

Diamant 13
Directed byGilles Béhat
Written byGilles Béat
Hugues Pagan
Olivier Marchal
Produced byCharles Gilibert
Marin Karmitz
Nathanaël Karmitz
Patrick Quinet
Claude Waringo
StarringGérard Depardieu
Olivier Marchal
Asia Argento
CinematographyBernard Malaisy
Edited byThierry Faber
Music byFrédéric Vercheval
Distributed byMK2 Distribution
Release dates
  • 21 January 2009 (2009-01-21) (France)
  • 21 January 2009 (2009-01-21) (Belgium)[1]
Running time
98 minutes
CountriesFrance
Belgium
Luxembourg
LanguageFrench
Budget$8 million
Box office$740.000[2]

Synopsis

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Mat is an aging, worn police officer. One day he is present when a criminal takes a female hostage in order to use the woman as a human shield. Mat refutes this strategy by shooting the man dead. The hostage remains unharmed but Mat knows all too well his action could have gone awry very easily. So afterwards he throws up and indulges himself to binge drinking. His constant enervation and his alcoholism have rendered him unacceptable as a law enforcer. When he is about to get sacked a former buddy contacts him. Franck has switched sides a long time ago and feels Mat would now be ready to condone this. But in spite of his misery Mat hesitates to become a drug trafficker. As fickle as he is it can work out either way.

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References

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  1. ^ "Release Date: 28 January 2009". Retrieved 2012-08-02.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Diamant 13 (2009) - JPBox-Office".
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