28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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To Catch a Smuggler: Search and Seize

To Catch a Smuggler: Search and Seize

director: Todd Hermann
original title: To Catch a Smuggler: Search and Seize
country: United States
year: 2011
running time: 48 min.

synopsis

This National Geographic television series shows New York’s John F. Kennedy airport from the guarded viewpoints of police officers looking for smugglers. As we follow their everyday routing, we see their techniques for uncovering contraband and for interrogating suspects.

Each episode begins with the statement that all the suspects in the series are presumed innocent. The faces of the people being interrogated are often blurred on purpose. Unlike in crime movies, the people who are apprehended are not automatically perpetrators and do not have faces. 

more about film

director: Todd Hermann
producer: Kevin Leadingham
Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms