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An impressionable and vulnerable Arab man gets thrust into a hellish prison, and ironically discovers greater opportunities for success than he ever possessed outside of the bars, in this violent melodrama from emerging French master filmmaker Jacques Audiard (THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED).Product Identifiers
EAN5055201809384
eBay Product ID (ePID)102179482
Product Key Features
ActorNiels Arestrup, Hichem Yacoubi, Adel Bencherif, Tahar Rahim, Reda Kateb, Jean-Philippe Ricci
Film/TV TitleA Prophet
DirectorJacques Audiard
LanguageFrench
Subtitle LanguageEnglish
Run Time149 Mins
Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Release Year2010
FormatDVD
FeaturesWidescreen, With Subtitles
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate18
Country/Region of ManufactureFrance
ComposerAlexandre Desplat
AwardsBest Foreign Language Film 2010 -
Additional InformationAn impressionable and vulnerable Arab man gets thrust into a hellish prison, and ironically discovers greater opportunities for success than he ever possessed outside of the bars, in this violent melodrama from emerging French master filmmaker Jacques Audiard (THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED). Tahar Rahim stars as Malik El Djebena, a petty criminal incarcerated for six years. Once inside and subjected to all of the standard brutalities that most prisoners endure, he is quickly educated in the "ways" of the prison, an institution torn violently between gangs of Corsicans and Arabs. The head Corsican thug, CΘsar Luciani (Niels Arestrup), offers Malik an ultimatum: either he rubs out an Arab inmate named Reyeb (Hichem Yacoubi), or he himself dies. Not only does Malik succeed with the hit, he earns the begrudging respect of the other prisoners, and -- after securing several days' release for good behavior -- uses off-time to forge a deeper and more multi-layered network of criminal ties than he ever dreamed possible. But as his own power and confidence grow, they threaten to outstrip Cesar's own insistence on submission and obedience at all costs.
ReviewsEmpire - A modern French crime epic where the smudges and crossings out do not diminish the passages of great dreamlike power
ScreenwriterJacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain
Sound sourceDolby Digital
EditorJuliette Welfling
Movie/TV TitleA Prophet
Director of PhotographyStephane Fontaine
Consumer AdviceContains strong bloody violence and very strong language