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Djihad (TV Series)
''Djihad!'' is a 2006 French drama television film by director and writer Félix Olivier. Plot The lives and destinies of five French characters intersect during the Iraq War. Three young French Arabs (Cherif, Karim, and Youssef) each for a different reason joins a jihadi group to fight against the Americans. Delphine LeGuen, a 40-something French woman running an NGO in Baghdad at the outbreak of the war, gets kidnapped and held by the jihadi insurgents. Meanwhile, a mid-level French diplomat, Hugo Bessieres, uncovers French corruption of the UN Oil for Food program while gathering evidence to support his country's effort to prevent the war. Cast * Adel Bencherif as Karim * Marianne Denicourt as Delphine Le Guen * Thierry Frémont as Hugo Bessières * Saïd Taghmaoui Saïd Taghmaoui (born 19 July 1973) is a French-American actor and screenwriter. One of his major screen roles was that of Saïd in the 1995 French film ''La Haine'', directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Taghmaoui h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adel Bencherif
Adel Bencherif (born 30 May 1975) is a French actor. He is best known for his role in the 2009 film ''A Prophet''. Filmography *2004: ''Grande École'' - Ouvrier flash-back 2 *2004: '' Safia et Sarah'' - Un jeune de la cité *2005: '' Ze film'' - Aziz *2006: ''Paris, je t'aime'' - Le voleur de gutitare (segment "Place des Fetes") *2006: ''Cages'' - Rabbah *2006: '' Djihad!'' (TV) - Karim *2007: '' Les Liens du sang'' (TV) - Abdel *2007: ''Frontier(s)'' - Sami *2007: ''Andalucia'' directed by Alain Gomis - Farid *2008: ''Go Fast'' - Sed *2009: ''A Prophet'' (in French ''Un prophète'') directed by Jacques Audiard - Ryad *2010: '' Of Gods and Men'' *2011: '' Sleepless Night'' *2013: ''Rock the Casbah'' *2013: '' The Dream Kids'' - Sofiane *2015: ''Spectre'' - Abrika *2016: ''Iris'' - Malek Ziani *2016: ''London Has Fallen'' - Raza Mansoor *2019: ''War of the Worlds ''The War of the Worlds'' is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialised i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Denicourt
Marianne Denicourt (née Cuau; born 14 May 1963) is a French actress, director and screenwriter who has appeared in more than 50 films and television productions since 1986. She studied under Patrice Chéreau in 1985-86 at the Ecole du Théâtre des Amandiers in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre Nanterre (, ) is the prefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine department in the western suburbs of Paris. It is located some northwest of the centre of Paris. In 2018, the commune had a population of 96,807. The eastern part of Nanterre, bordering t .... Filmography Theatre References External links * * 1966 births Living people French film actresses French television actresses Actresses from Paris 20th-century French actresses 21st-century French actresses French women film directors French women screenwriters French screenwriters French stage actresses {{France-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thierry Frémont
Thierry Frémont (born 24 July 1962) is a French actor. He has appeared in more than 60 films and television shows since 1984. He starred in the 1991 film ''Fortune Express'', which was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography * '' The Cruel Embrace'' (1987) * ''Fortune Express'' (1991) * ''Merci la vie'' (1991) * '' Zie 37 Stagen'' (1997) * '' Nadia and the Hippos'' (1999) * '' Le fils du Français'' (1999) * '' The Secret Book'' (2006) * '' Les Brigades du Tigre'' (2006) * '' Djihad !'' (2006) * '' The Round Up'' (2010) * '' Djinns'' (2010) * '' The Silence of Joan'' (2011) * '' A Happy Event'' (2011) * '' Zarafa'' (2012) - Moreno (voice) * '' Allied'' (2016) Paul Delamare * '' Transferts'' (2017, TV series) - Paul Dangeac * ''Das Boot ''Das Boot'' (, English: "The Boat") is a 1981 West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saïd Taghmaoui
Saïd Taghmaoui (born 19 July 1973) is a French-American actor and screenwriter. One of his major screen roles was that of Saïd in the 1995 French film ''La Haine'', directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Taghmaoui has also appeared in a number of English-language films, with roles such as Captain Said in ''Three Kings'' (1999), Sameer in ''Wonder Woman'' (2017), and The Elder in '' John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum'' (2019). Early life Saïd Taghmaoui was born in Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, into a large family comprising eight children; he had four brothers and three sisters. His parents were Moroccan immigrants of Berber ancestry from Essaouira. Taghmaoui grew up in the Rose des Vents ''quartier'' of the Aulnay-sous-Bois ''commune''.''Paris Match'' 3118, 19–25 February 2009. He dropped out of school to become a boxer, rising as high as No. 2 in his weight class in France. Career He later met actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz; together, they appeared in Kassovitz's film ''L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd Globes De Cristal Award
The 2nd Globes de Cristal Award ceremony honoured the best French movies, actors, actresses, plays, concerts, novels, singers, TV series, exhibitions and fashion designers of 2006 and was launched by the French television channel Paris Première. 19 journalists selected a list of five nominees in each of 12 award categories; 3,000 journalists then voted to determine the winners. The ceremony took place on 5 February 2007 at Le Lido in Paris and was broadcast live on the channel Paris Première. The ceremony was chaired by Pierre Lescure and hosted by André Manoukian and . The dinner included foie gras, veal piccata and a blancmange for dessert. Celebrities in attendance included: Ophélie Winter, Lio, Annie Girardot, Michèle Bernier, Christophe Malavoy, Orlando, Helena Noguerra, Olivia Ruiz, Marina Hands, Bérénice Bejo, Dominique Besnehard, Mathilda May, Léa Drucker, Marc Cerrone, Mazarine Pingeot, Vahina Giocante and Jean-Michel Ribes. Highlights of the ceremony incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iraq War In Television
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the southwest and Syria to the west. The capital and largest city is Baghdad. Iraq is home to diverse ethnic groups including Iraqi Arabs, Kurds, Turkmens, Assyrians, Armenians, Yazidis, Mandaeans, Persians and Shabakis with similarly diverse geography and wildlife. The vast majority of the country's 44 million residents are Muslims – the notable other faiths are Christianity, Yazidism, Mandaeism, Yarsanism and Zoroastrianism. The official languages of Iraq are Arabic and Kurdish; others also recognised in specific regions are Neo-Aramaic, Turkish and Armenian. Starting as early as the 6th millennium BC, the fertile alluvial plains between Iraq's Tigris and Euphrate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Films
The following is an overview of events in 2006, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Evaluation of the year Legendary film critic Philip French of ''The Guardian'' described 2006 as "an outstanding year for British cinema". He went on to emphasize, "Six of our well-established directors have made highly individual films of real distinction: Michael Winterbottom's ''A Cock and Bull Story'', Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner '' The Wind That Shakes the Barley'', Christopher Nolan's ''The Prestige'', Stephen Frears's ''The Queen'', Paul Greengrass's '' United 93'' and Nicholas Hytner's ''The History Boys''. Two young directors made confident debuts, both offering a jaundiced view of contemporary Britain: Andrea Arnold's Red Road and Paul Andrew Williams's London to Brighton. In addition the gifted Mexican Alfonso Cuaron came here to make the dystopian thriller '' Children of Men''." He also stated, "In the (Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
