22 Bullets
22 Bullets (French: L'Immortel) is a 2010 French gangster-action film directed by Richard Berry. It tells a part of the life story of Jacky Imbert, and is based on the novel L'Immortel (2007) by Franz-Olivier Giesbert. Filming began on 23 February 2009 in Marseille, in Avignon in early April 2009, and continued for 8 weeks in Paris.
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| Screenplay by | Éric Assous
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| Based on | L'Immortel
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| Running time | 115 minutes
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| Country | France
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| Language | French
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| Budget | $20 million
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| Box office | $21.7 million
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- Both the film and the book it's adapted from are loosely based on a seventies gang war between Jacques Imbert aka "Jacky Le Mat" (considered to be the last "Don" of Marseille) and Tany Zampa. Just like Charly Matteï in the film, Jacky was left for dead on a parking lot with 22 bullets in his body by Zampa, yet miraculously survived with only his right arm remaining paralyzed.
- Debuted at the number three spot on the French box-office, under the newly released Alice in Wonderland (2010) and French romantic comedy L'arnacoeur (2010) in its second week.
- Despite their characters being friends since youth in this movie, and thus presumably the same age (as shown in flashback), actor Jean Reno is more than 15 years older than co-star Kad Merad.
- Kad Merad's first portrayal of a bad guy.
- The home of Charly's mother shown in the film, with its distinctive yellow color and columns on the porch, is the youth hostel outside of Cassis near Marseilles at La Fontasse. Its location in Google Earth is at 43°12'59.78"N and 5°30'35.53"E.
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