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RELEASE DATE
3-12-2010

RUN TIME
149 min

MPAA RATING
(R), for strong violence, sexual content, nudity, language and drug material

GENRE
Drama

STARRING
Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb

DIRECTOR(S)
Jacques Audiard

PRODUCER(S)
Martine Cassinelli, Antonin Dedet

WRITER(S)
Thomas Bidegain, Jacques Audiard, Abdel Raouf Dafri, Nicolas Peufaillit

DISTRIBUTOR
Sony Pictures Classics

SYNOPSIS

Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena, part Arab, part Corsican, cannot read or write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts. He is 19 years old. Cornered by the leader of the Corsican gang currently ruling the prison, he is given a number of "missions" to carry out, toughening him up and gaining the gang leader's confidence in the process. Malik is a fast learner and rises up the prison ranks, all the while secretly devising his own plans.