Djihad! (2006)

6.0/10 180 min

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.

Cast

Saïd Taghmaoui

Youssef

Makram J. Khoury

Médecin de l'hôpital

Adel Bencherif

Karim

Marianne Denicourt

Delphine Le Guen

Thierry Frémont

Hugo Bessières

Slimane Hadjar

Chérif

Kamel Abdeli

Nouri

Serge Avédikian

Jean-Pierre Durieux

Aki Avni

Jeff Hacker

Yassine Azzouz

El Khadiri

Jay Benedict

Dr McKenzie

Philippe Duclos

Xavier Pujol

Samira Lachhab

Leila

Pierre Vernier

Paul Bayard

Igal Naor

Colonel Walid

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