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Djihad!
Djihad!
Release: 2006-12-01
·Runtime: 180m
·★ 6.0
A hard-hitting French drama detailing the intersecting destinies of five characters whose lives cross over the current war in Iraq: three young French Arabs who each for a different reason joins a jihadi group to fight against the Americans; a 40-something French woman running an NGO in Baghdad at the outbreak of the war who gets kidnapped and held by the jihadi insurgents; and a mid-level French diplomat who uncovers the corruption of the UN Oil for Food program while gathering evidence to support the French effort to prevent the war.
Cast
Thierry Frémont
as Hugo Bessières
Slimane Hadjar
as Chérif
Serge Avédikian
as Jean-Pierre Durieux
Saïd Taghmaoui
as Youssef
Aki Avni
as Jeff Hacker
Yassine Azzouz
as El Khadiri
Pierre Vernier
as Paul Bayard
Kamel Abdeli
as Nouri
Baya Belal
as Zahra
Philippe Duclos
as Xavier Pujol
Igal Naor
as Colonel Walid
Makram J. Khoury
as Médecin de l'hôpital
Jay Benedict
as Dr McKenzie
Samira Lachhab
as Leila
Adel Bencherif
as Karim
Marianne Denicourt
as Delphine Le Guen