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Released
2014 · FILM

The Connection

A determined magistrate in 1970s Marseille risks everything to dismantle the city's powerful heroin empire led by a ruthless kingpin in a high-stakes battle between law and crime.

“Marseille 1975. To stop a dangerous drug lord, you need a dangerous cop.”

Directed by
Shannon Harvey, Cedric Jimenez
Written by
Audrey Diwan, Cedric Jimenez
Runtime
135 min
Language
FR
ActionCrimeThriller
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

Pierre Michel, a young and energetic magistrate, is transferred to Marseille to assist in a crackdown on organized crime. He quickly learns the complexities of the city's out-of-control drug trade. His ambitious mission is to dismantle the French Connection, a highly organized operation controlling Marseille's underground heroin economy, led by the feared and seemingly untouchable Gaetan Zampa. Braving immense danger, Pierre enters the underworld to confront ruthless criminals.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 35

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Mike ConnertyShot by Shing Fung CheungScored by Paul William DawkinsDesigned by Jean Philippe Moreaux

Box Office

2014 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$12.1M

Budget$26.0M
Worldwide gross$12.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Der Unbestechlichede
  • Der Unbestechliche - Mörderisches Marseillede
  • The Connectionen
  • Conexión Marsellaes
  • French Connectionit
  • La French Connectionit

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