The Imposter is a 2012 documentary film about the 1997 case of Frédéric Bourdin,
who impersonated a boy who had disappeared in 1994, claiming to have
been kidnapped for sexual abuse and transported from the boy's home in
Texas to Spain. His impersonation fooled several authorities and even
many of the boy's family members, even though he was seven years older
than the missing boy, had brown eyes and dark hair (rather than the
boy's blue eyes and blond hair). The impersonation was discovered only
by a private investigator – who brought his own misguided hypothesis
into the story.
Director: Bart Layton
Stars: Adam O'Brian, Frederic Bourdin and Frédéric Bourdin
Nicholas was 13 the day he disappeared (June 13, 1994). He would have
been 16 and 8 months when he was reported found in Spain (October 7,
1997)... In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappears without a trace from San
Antonio, Texas. Three and a half years later he is found alive,
thousands of miles away in a village in southern Spain with a story of
kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all
is not quite as it seems. The boy bears many of the same distinguishing
marks he
always had, but why does
he now have a strange accent? Why does he look so different? And why
doesn't the family seem to notice these glaring inconsistencies? It's
only when an investigator starts asking questions that this strange tale
takes an even stranger turn..
