EL TAAIB / LE REPENTI

EL TAAIB

By Merzak ALLOUACHE

JBA PRODUCTION - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2012


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Directors' Fortnight 2012
    • Year of production
    • 2012
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • ALGERIA
    • Languages
    • ARABIC
    • Duration
    • 87 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Merzak ALLOUACHE
    • Writer(s)
    • Merzak ALLOUACHE
    • Producer(s)
    • Jacques BIDOU (JBA Production), Marianne DUMOULIN (JBA Production), Yacine DJADI (Baya Films)
    • Synopsis
    • Algeria region of the high flatlands. As Islamist groups continue to spread terror, Rashid, a young Jihadist, leaves the mountains to return to his village. In keeping with the law « of pardon and national harmony », he has to surrender to the police and give up his weapon. He thus receives amnesty and becomes a « repenti ». But the law cannot erase his crimes and for Rachid it's the beginning of a one-way journey of violence, secrets and manipulation.