La graine et le mulet

The Secret of the Grain

An idiosyncratic story about life, ambitions, frustrations, courage and indolence among North African migrant families in the south of France. After being laid off from the shipbuilding wharf, the ageing Slimane wants to start a restaurant on a ship.

European Panorama · Eröffnungsfilme | Opening Films 2008

Abdellatif Kechiche

France 2007

color

150 minutes

OV with German subtitles

Screenplay Abdellatif Kechiche, Ghalya Lacroix

Cinematography Lubomir Bakchev

Editing Ghalya Lacroix, Camille Toubkis

With Habib Boufares, Farida Benkhetache, Hafsia Herzi, Abdelhamid Aktouche, Bouraouia Marzouk

Production

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