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Djihad (film)
''Djihad!'' is a 2006 French drama television film by director and writer Félix Olivier. Plot The lives and destinies of five French characters intersect during the Iraq War. Three young French Arabs (Cherif, Karim, and Youssef) each for a different reason joins a jihadi group to fight against the Americans. Delphine LeGuen, a 40-something French woman running an NGO in Baghdad at the outbreak of the war, gets kidnapped and held by the jihadi insurgents. Meanwhile, a mid-level French diplomat, Hugo Bessieres, uncovers French corruption of the UN Oil for Food program while gathering evidence to support his country's effort to prevent the war. Cast * Adel Bencherif as Karim * Marianne Denicourt as Delphine Le Guen * Thierry Frémont as Hugo Bessières * Saïd Taghmaoui Saïd Taghmaoui (; born 19 July 1973) is a French actor. One of his major screen roles was that of Saïd in the 1995 French film '' La Haine'', directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Taghmaoui has also appeared in a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adel Bencherif
Adel Bencherif (born 30 May 1975) is a French actor. He is best known for his role in the 2009 film '' A Prophet''. Filmography *2004: '' Grande École'' - Ouvrier flash-back 2 *2004: '' Safia et Sarah'' - Un jeune de la cité *2005: '' Ze film'' - Aziz *2006: '' Paris, je t'aime'' - Le voleur de gutitare (segment "Place des Fetes") *2006: ''Cages'' - Rabbah *2006: '' Djihad!'' (TV) - Karim *2007: '' Les Liens du sang'' (TV) - Abdel *2007: '' Frontier(s)'' - Sami *2007: ''Andalucia'' directed by Alain Gomis - Farid *2008: ''Go Fast'' - Sed *2009: '' A Prophet'' (in French ''Un prophète'') directed by Jacques Audiard Jacques Audiard (; born 30 April 1952) is a French film director, producer, and screenwriter. One of the most awarded French filmmakers in history, his international accolades include an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, and three ... - Ryad *2010: '' Of Gods and Men'' *2011: '' Sleepless Night'' *2013: ''Rock the Casbah'' *2013: '' The Dream ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Denicourt
Marianne Denicourt (née Cuau; born 14 May 1966) is a French actress, director and screenwriter who has appeared in more than 50 films and television productions since 1986. She studied under Patrice Chéreau in 1985–86 at the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Ecole du Théâtre des Amandiers in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre. Filmography Theatre References External links * * 1966 births Living people French film actresses French television actresses Actresses from Paris 20th-century French actresses 21st-century French actresses French women film directors French women screenwriters French screenwriters French stage actresses {{France-stage-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thierry Frémont
Thierry Frémont (born 24 July 1962) is a French actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films and television shows since 1984. He starred in the 1991 film '' Fortune Express'', which was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography * '' The Cruel Embrace'' (1987) * '' Fortune Express'' (1991) * '' Merci la vie'' (1991) * '' Unpredictable Nature of the River'' (1996) * '' Zie 37 Stagen'' (1997) * '' Nadia and the Hippos'' (1999) * '' Le fils du Français'' (1999) * '' The Secret Book'' (2006) * '' Les Brigades du Tigre'' (2006) * '' Djihad !'' (2006) * '' The Round Up'' (2010) * '' Djinns'' (2010) * '' The Silence of Joan'' (2011) * '' A Happy Event'' (2011) * '' Zarafa'' (2012) - Moreno (voice) * '' Allied'' (2016) Paul Delamare * '' Transferts'' (2017, TV series) - Paul Dangeac * ''Das Boot (; ) is a 1981 West Germany, West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saïd Taghmaoui
Saïd Taghmaoui (; born 19 July 1973) is a French actor. One of his major screen roles was that of Saïd in the 1995 French film '' La Haine'', directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Taghmaoui has also appeared in a number of English-language films, with roles such as Captain Said in ''Three Kings'' (1999), Breaker in '' G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra'' (2009), Sameer in ''Wonder Woman'' (2017), and The Elder in '' John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum'' (2019). Early life Saïd Taghmaoui was born in Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, into a large family comprising eight children; he had four brothers and three sisters. His parents were Moroccan immigrants of Berber ancestry from Essaouira. Taghmaoui grew up in the Rose des Vents ''quartier'' of the Aulnay-sous-Bois ''commune''.''Paris Match'' 3118, 19–25 February 2009. He dropped out of school to become a boxer, rising as high as No. 2 in his weight class in France. Career He later met actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz; together, they app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd Globes De Cristal Award
The 2nd Globes de Cristal Award ceremony honoured the best French movies, actors, actresses, plays, concerts, novels, singers, TV series, exhibitions and fashion designers of 2006 and was launched by the French television channel Paris Première. 19 journalists selected a list of five nominees in each of 12 award categories; 3,000 journalists then voted to determine the winners. The ceremony took place on 5 February 2007 at Le Lido in Paris and was broadcast live on the channel Paris Première. The ceremony was chaired by Pierre Lescure and hosted by André Manoukian and . The dinner included foie gras, veal piccata and a blancmange for dessert. Celebrities in attendance included: Ophélie Winter, Lio, Annie Girardot, Michèle Bernier, Christophe Malavoy, Orlando, Helena Noguerra, Olivia Ruiz, Marina Hands, Bérénice Bejo, Dominique Besnehard, Mathilda May, Léa Drucker, Marc Cerrone, Mazarine Pingeot, Vahina Giocante and Jean-Michel Ribes. Highlights of the cere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iraq War In Television
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south, Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait to the southeast, Jordan to the southwest, and Syria to the west. The country covers an area of and has a population of over 46 million, making it the 58th largest country by area and the 31st most populous in the world. Baghdad, home to over 8 million people, is the capital city and the largest in the country. Starting in the 6th millennium BC, the fertile plains between Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers, referred to as Mesopotamia, fostered the rise of early cities, civilisations, and empires including Sumer, Akkad, and Assyria. Known as the cradle of civilisation, Mesopotamia saw the invention of writing systems, mathematics, navigation, timekeeping, a calendar, astrology, the wheel, the sailboat, and a law code. After the Muslim conquest of Mesopotamia, Baghdad became the capital of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Television Films
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics A six-sided polygon is a hexagon, one of the three regular polygons capable of tiling the plane. A hexagon also has 6 edges as well as 6 internal and external angles. 6 is the second smallest composite number. It is also the first number that is the sum of its proper divisors, making it the smallest perfect number. It is also the only perfect number that doesn't have a digital root of 1. 6 is the first unitary perfect number, since it is the sum of its positive proper unitary divisors, without including itself. Only five such numbers are known to exist. 6 is the largest of the four all-Harshad numbers. 6 is the 2nd superior highly composite number, the 2nd colossally abundant number, the 3rd triangular number, the 4th highly composite number, a pronic number, a congruent number, a harmonic divisor number, and a semiprime. 6 is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
