A Prophet

Release Date: February 12, 2010 (limited; one-week Oscar run NY/LA: Dec. 2009)
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Director: Jacques Audiard
Screenwriter: Thomas Bidegain, Jacques Audiard
Starring: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb, Jean-Philippe Ricci, Gilles Cohen, Antoine Basler, Leïla Bekhti, Foued Nassah, Jean-Emmanuel Pagni, Frédéric Graziani, Slimane Dazi
Genre: Crime, Drama
Official Website: None
Plot Summary:
The rise through the criminal ranks of a young orphan of North African origin, who has only known a prison life and who will become, with the help of the Corsican mafia and an influential Imam, the ultimate crime kingpin of all of France’s immigrant suburbs.
Tags: A Prophet, crime, drama, Niels Arestrup, Sony Pictures, Tahar Rahim
