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A Prophet: Directed by Jacques Audiard. With Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Reda Kateb. A delinquent Muslim man struggles to get by in prison until he is taken under the wing of a powerful mob boss. But his gradual rise through the mob's ranks brings him in conflict with his mentor.
The acting is great; the story is very realistic; but this film is overrated in IMDb. The title "A Prophet" is never clear and the director Jacques Audiard uses the surrealistic vision of Reyeb to give the status of cult to this film that is in the end, a good movie about prison. My vote is seven. Title (Brazil): "O Profeta" ("The Prophet")
A Prophet (French: Un prophète) is a 2009 French prison crime film directed by Jacques Audiard with a screenplay by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit, from a story by Dafri.
26 lut 2010 · Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison.
Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)" Peter Travers : Rolling Stone "What's most immediately remarkable about the film is the raw intensity of its hyper-realistic encounters, hugely enhanced by the superb acting of newcomer Rahim"
Set largely within prison walls and featuring an almost exclusively male and non-professional cast, the film details the prison career of Malik el Djebena (newcomer Rahim), a 19-year-old man of North African origin but estranged from the Muslim community.
