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Filmmaker	Rachid Bouchareb
Belgian producer	Versus Production
Foreign producer	Tessalit Production
Casting	Jamel Debbouze Sami Bouajila Roschdy Zem Samy Naceri
Belgian distributor	Belga Films
French distributor	Mars Films
International sales	Films Distribution
Budget	€14,5mn
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Status

Released : 6 december 2006

Selection

Film Festival Cannes 2006 : Award for best actor
Oscars 2007 nomination : Best foreign film

Operating results

Tickets sold in Belgium	89.788
Tickets sold in France	3.057.499

Synopsis

« It is the story of the lonely warriors who fought for the native country but who, on the day of victory, did not have the right to march on the Champs-Elysées because they were Arabs or Blacks”» Jamel Debbouze 1944-1945… The Liberation of Italy, the Provence, the Alps, the Rhone Valley, the Vosges, and Alsace was essential for the victory of the allied forces. And for France’s place among them after the truce. This merciless journey of victory towards Germany was performed by the first French Division, recruited in Africa to better mislead the surveillance of the German and the civil servants of Vichy: 200 000 men, amongst who 130 000 « natives» of which 110 000 North Africans and 20 000 Africans… The rest consisted for 2/3 of “pieds-noirs” and 1/3 French men who had run away from the occupation. The film tells the forgotten story of the “native” soldiers through the heroic acts of four of them. ABDELKADER, SAÏD, MESSAOUD en YASSIR (the cavalryman) are daredevils. Known for their endurance, their sense of territory and their bravery in combat, they are sent to the first defence lines. All along their journey, while they fight to liberate the French population, each of them pursues another objective: YASSIR is committed to scoop up the spoils of war. MESSAOUD, astonished by the welcome of the French, would like to marry and live in France to escape the “apartheid” from Algeria. SAÏD, a poor devil from Morocco, hopes to find a family in the French Army. And ABDELKADER fights for freedom and fairness within the French army, hoping that, once the war is over, a grateful France will treat the colonised Algerian people more justly.

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