Free Men (2011)

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Country: France
Genres: Drama, History, Romance
Release: 2012-03-16
Director: Ismaël Ferroukhi
Writers: Ismaël Ferroukhi , Alain-Michel Blanc
Language: French | Arabic
Stars: Tahar Rahim , Michael Lonsdale (I) , Mahmud Shalaby , Lubna Azabal , Christopher Buchholz , Farid Larbi , Stéphane Rideau , Bruno Fleury , François Delaive , Jean-Pierre Becker
Runtime: 99 min
Awards: 2 wins & 2 nominations
AKA: Die freien Menschen (Germany) , Свободные люди (Russian Federation) , Comme nos enfants (France, French Republic) , Những Người Tự Do (Vietnam) , Les hommes libres (France, French Republic) , Les hommes libres (Italy) , Free Men (United Kingdom) , Les hommes libres , Free Men , Los hombres libres (Argentina) , Les hommes libres (Canada) , Özgür Adamlar (Turkey)
Plot: Paris, occupied France, 1942. Younes, an uneducated Algerian immigrant, ekes out a very modest living on the black market. When the police catches him they set him free provided he infiltrates the Paris Mosque and spies on the rector. Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit is indeed suspected not only of providing false papers to Jews but of harboring some of them as well. Once within the precincts of the Mosque, Younes proves a poor secret agent, which displeases the police inspector in charge of him. In fact, at the mosque, Younes becomes every day more alert to the great tragedy in progress because of the Nazis. He also develops a deep friendship with a singer named Salim Halali. To his amazement, he discovers that Salim is both Jewish and homosexual...
IMDB:tt1699185