Larger-than-life characters populate director Nejib Belkadhi’s spellbinding combination of film noir and magic realism, which follows a downtrodden orphan — now grown but still saddled with a cruel nickname — who has a reversal of fortune and takes on the thugs who control his ghetto.
Top Cast
Ahmed Abdelmonaâm Chouayet as Mohsen Bastardo
Lobna Noomene as Bent Essengra
Taoufik El Bahri as Khlifa
Chedly Arfaoui as Larnouba
Lasaad Ben Abdallah as Khadhra
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