Tahar Rahim
Malik El Djebena
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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.
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.
Nineteen year-old Franco-Algerian Malik El Djebena is just starting his six year prison sentence in Brécourt. Although he has spent the better part of his life in juvenile detention, this stint is his first in an adult prison.
This acclaimed crime drama follows Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim), a delinquent young Muslim man, who is struggling to get by in a French prison.
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In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
After refusing to snitch, a young Arab man is thrown into a French prison, where he slowly rises through the ranks of the institution's ruling gang. Watch trailers & learn more.
Mar 3, 2010 · “A Prophet” becomes a young man’s bleak, remorseless coming of age story. The best performance in the film is by Arestrup as Cesar. You may remember him from Audiard’s “ The Beat That My Heart Skipped ” (2005), where he played a seedy but confident father who psychically overshadows his son.
Directed by Jacques Audiard. Escaping the prison of life. 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.
An incisive crime saga told within the confines of concrete walls and deprived humanity. Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 11, 2022. Diane Carson KDHX (St. Louis) For an...
A Prophet. An impressionable and vulnerable Arabic 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 French succès d’estime Jacques Audiard (The Beat That My Heart Skipped).
