A Prophet | Jacques Audiard

A Prophet - Jacques Audiard Official Trailer and Movie

Movie Synopsis:A Prophet is a french crime drama movie released in 2009. Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim), a delinquent young Muslim man, who is struggling to get by in a French prison. When he is taken under the wing of powerful Corsican mob boss Cesar Luciani (Niels Arestrup), he begins performing regular assignments for him

A Prophet - Jacques Audiard Release, Production, Budget

Run Time:  2h 35m
Initial Release: 26 August 2009 (Belgium)
Director/ Screenplay: Jacques Audiard
Writer: ‎Abdel Raouf Dafri
Music ‎: ‎Alexandre Desplat
Budget‎: ‎$13 million
Nominations: César Award for Best Sound
Awards: César Award for Best Actor, César Award for Best Film
Also Released in Languages: French, Arabic Language, Corsican

A Prophet - Jacques Audiard Cast and Crew

Tahar Rahim (Malik El Djebena)
Adel Bencherif (Ryad)
Reda Kateb (Jordi)
Niels Arestrup (César Luciani)
Leïla Bekhti (Djamila)

IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 - ‎91,352 votes

A Prophet - Jacques Audiard Critic Reviews

“A Prophet” is one of those rare films in which the moral stakes are as insistent and thought through as the aesthetic choices.

Manohla Dargis

The NYTimes

Jacques Audiards A Prophet traces the evolution of an illiterate French-Arab inmate who uses his time well in prison, learning to read and write, studying economics, picking up a new language.

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