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French. Arabic. Box office. $7.5 million [4] [3] The Mauritanian is a 2021 legal drama film based on the memoir of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, [5] a Mauritanian man who was held from 2002 to 2016 without charge in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, a United States military prison. The film was directed by Kevin Macdonald based on a screenplay written ...
Mar 4, 2021 · The Mauritanian, through its narrative, depicts the exact scenario focusing on a single man’s life suspected of the 9/11 attacks. The man, Mohamedou Ould Salahi lived in captivity for 7 years without trial and 7 years more because no law was interested in giving him back his freedom. It’s his story and Cinema delivers it well.
Mar 10, 2021 · In researching The Mauritanian true story, we discovered that Slahi spent over 14 years in the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He was apprehended and arrived at the detention camp on August 4, 2002 and was released on October 17, 2016, at which time he was sent back to Mauritania. The U.S. government had suspected he was connected ...
Mar 2, 2021 · The Mauritanian: Directed by Kevin Macdonald. With Tahar Rahim, Nouhe Hamady Bari, Saadna Hamoud, Mohamed Yeslem Mousse. Mohamedou Ould Slahi fights for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Kevin Macdonald
- 2021-03-02
Feb 12, 2021 · A movie was inevitable and now Kevin Macdonald’s version of Salahi’s story, “The Mauritanian,” is here. It is an old-fashioned drama through and through, with some impressive acting from Tahar Rahim, Jodie Foster, and Benedict Cumberbatch. But "The Mauritanian" fails to humanize the story it’s telling, never coming off as something ...
The real life story of Mauritanian national Mohamedou Ould Slahi 's detainment at Guantanamo Bay in the aftermath of the 911 attacks on suspicions that he was the mastermind recruiter for some of the 911 pilots is dramatized. In 2005 in a general writ of habeus corpus which allows the uncharged detainees at Guantanamo Bay to have their cases ...
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Jul 2, 2021 · Rotten Tomatoes reports that 73% of 192 critic reviews were positive, with an average rating of 6.50/10. The website’s critics consensus reads: “The Mauritanian takes a frustratingly generic approach to a real-life story that might have been inspirational in other hands, but Tahar Rahim’s performance elevates the uneven material.”.
