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dir Jacques Audiard pro Martine Cassinelli sc Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain ph Stéphane Fontaine mus Alexandre Desplat ed Juliette Welfling cast Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Reda Kateb, Hichem Yacoubi, Jean-Philippe Ricci, Gilles Cohen, Pierre Leccia, Antoine Basler, Foued Nassah, Jean-Emmanuel Pagni, Frédéric Graziani dis Syrena Films, Celluloid Dreams

Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena cannot read nor write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts. He is 19 years old. Cornered by the leader of the Corsican gang who rules the prison, he is given a number of “missions” to carry out, toughening him up and gaining the gang leader’s confidence in the process. But Malik is brave and a fast learner, daring to secretly develop his own plans…

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Jacques Audiard (1952)

Screenwriter, director and actor. „See How They Fall” starring Mathieu Kassovitz and Jean-Louis Trintignant was his directing debut. Two years later he shot drama-comedy “A Self-Made Hero”, with Jean-François Deniau. Psychological drama “The Beat That My Heart Skipped”, which he directed, won many film prizes. „A Prophet” had its world premiere during Cannes International Film Festival where it was awarded with Grand Prix 2009.

FILMOGRAPHY:

Un prophète / A Prophet (2009)
De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté / The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
Sur mes lèvres / Read My Lips (2001)
Norme française (1998)
Un héros très discret / A Self-Made Hero (1996)
Regarde les hommes tomber / See How They Fall (1994)