Djihad | |
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Written by | Félix Olivier Richard Schlesinger |
Directed by | Félix Olivier |
Country of origin | France |
Original language(s) | French |
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Producer(s) | Jacques Ouaniche |
Running time | 2 x 100 minutes |
Distributor | Canal + |
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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.