Chancers: The Great Gangster Film Fraud (2016)

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7.0

24/01/2016 • 1h 25m
original-title

Chancers: The Great Gangster Film Fraud

status

Released

production-companies

BBC

Rise Films

Splice Post

original-language

English

budget

-

revenue

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Documentary about a bankrupt Jordanian entrepreneur and an unemployed Irish actress who hatch a plan to scam £2.5m off the British taxman by faking the production of a £20m movie. But they are found out, arrested and then bailed. While out on bail, they decide to prove their innocence by actually making a film. They hire a former nightclub bouncer, now a self-made micro-budget gangster film director. In 2011, Paul Knight makes their movie for under £100,000 with a cast of soap and gangster movie stars including Danny Midwinter, Marc Bannerman and Loose Women's Andrea McLean. The film's title is A Landscape of Lies. But the cinematic alibi does not convince the jury when the trial runs in 2013. The producers are convicted of tax fraud and given long sentences.

director
production-countries

United Kingdom

United States of America

spoken-languages

English

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