After a long and brutal career working for the Marseille mafia, Charly Mattei (played by Jean Reno) has been retired for 3 years, living a quiet life devoted to his wife and 2 young children. However his past comes back to haunt him one morning when he is shot 22 times on the docks of the old port. Incredibly, he survives and resolves to seek out Tony Zacchia (played by Kad Merad) -- the only man who would dare try to kill him... Klaus Badelt used strings and brass for the orchestral part of his soundtrack. The strings numbered 22 violins, 8 violas, 8 celli and 6 double basses and the brass group featured 4 horns, 2 tenor trombones, 2 bass trombones and tuba doubling cimbasso. Orchestrations were by Bob Elhai and the score was recorded in 4 sessions at Abbey Road studio 1. Jackie Shave led LMO which was conducted by Andy Brown and the sessions were engineered and co -produced by Jake Jackson and Pete Cobbin in London and Klaus Badelt and Chris Brooks on a link from Los Angeles. 22 Bullets (also known as L'immortel for the French release of the film in January 2010) is adapted from the best selling crime novel L'immortel by Franz -- Olivier Giesbert and will be distributed worldwide by EuropaCorp Distribution.