Top Cast
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Jalil Naciri
Slimane
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Farid Abdedou
Samy
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Hakim Sarahoui
Staf
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Karim Chakir
Ali
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Faiza Kaddour
Nacera
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Kamel Allah
Paco
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Driss El Haddaoui
Karim
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Corinne Colas
Annick
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Mahmoud Zemmouri
Father
Overview
Hexagone, shot in the Parisian suburb of Goussainville, documents the life of a working-class banlieue through a fragmented, episodic narrative which interweaves the lives of a variety of characters, principally drawn from the Maghrebi community.
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