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Djihad! (2006)

Directed by Felix Olivier

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.

Length 180 minutes

Actors

Saïd Taghmaoui | Makram Khoury | Adel Bencherif | Marianne Denicourt | Thierry Frémont | Slimane Hadjar | Kamel Abdeli | Serge Avedikian | Aki Avni | Yassine Azzouz | Baya Belal | Jay Benedict | Philippe Duclos | Samira Lachhab | Kais Nashef | Pierre Vernier | Igal Naor