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Djihad!

A hard-hitting French drama detailing the intersecting destinies of five characters whose lives cross over the current war in Iraq: three young French Arabs who each for a different reason joins a jihadi group to fight against the Americans; a 40-something French woman running an NGO in Baghdad at the outbreak of the war who gets kidnapped and held by the jihadi insurgents; and a mid-level French diplomat who uncovers the corruption of the UN Oil for Food program while gathering evidence to support the French effort to prevent the war.

Top Cast

  • Saïd Taghmaoui

    Saïd Taghmaoui

    Youssef

  • Makram J. Khoury

    Makram J. Khoury

    Médecin de l'hôpital

  • Adel Bencherif

    Adel Bencherif

    Karim

  • Marianne Denicourt

    Marianne Denicourt

    Delphine Le Guen

  • Thierry Frémont

    Thierry Frémont

    Hugo Bessières

  • Slimane Hadjar

    Slimane Hadjar

    Chérif

  • Kamel Abdeli

    Kamel Abdeli

    Nouri

  • Serge Avédikian

    Serge Avédikian

    Jean-Pierre Durieux

  • Aki Avni

    Aki Avni

    Jeff Hacker

Overview

A hard-hitting French drama detailing the intersecting destinies of five characters whose lives cross over the current war in Iraq: three young French Arabs who each for a different reason joins a jihadi group to fight against the Americans; a 40-something French woman running an NGO in Baghdad at the outbreak of the war who gets kidnapped and held by the jihadi insurgents; and a mid-level French diplomat who uncovers the corruption of the UN Oil for Food program while gathering evidence to support the French effort to prevent the war.

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