I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed

I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
Directed by	Serge Le Péron; Saïd Smihi
Written by	Serge Le Péron; Saïd Smihi; Frédérique Moreau
Produced by	Gilles Sandoz; Abdelhai Laraki; Paco Poch; Saïd Smihi
Starring	Charles Berling; Simon Abkarian; Josiane Balasko; Jean-Pierre Léaud; Mathieu Amalric
Cinematography	Christophe Pollock
Edited by	Janice Jones
Music by	Joan Albert Amargós; Pierre-Alexandre Mati
Production; company	A2L Production Films
Distributed by	Rézo Films
Release date	2 November 2005;
Running time	101 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	$3.8 million[1]
Box office	$192.000[2]

I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed (French: J'ai vu tuer Ben Barka) is a 2005 French-Moroccan film drama directed by Serge Le Péron and Saïd Smihi.[3] The film is based on the Ben Barka affair.

Plot

In a Parisian apartment, police discover the body of Georges Figon, the man who broke the scandal of the Ben Barka affair, and undermined Gaullist power. A year earlier, Figon, tired of dubious deals and petty scams, is looking for a lucrative job. Close to the "milieu" (the criminal underworld) since his years in prison, he is given a big assignment: to produce a documentary about decolonization, written by Marguerite Duras and directed by Georges Franju, with the help of famous Moroccan dissident, Mehdi Ben Barka, who has been hired as an historical consultant. The film project is a trap.

Cast

Charles Berling as Georges Figon
Simon Abkarian as Mehdi Ben Barka
Josiane Balasko as Marguerite Duras
Jean-Pierre Léaud as Georges Franju
Mathieu Amalric as Philippe Bernier
Fabienne Babe as Anne-Marie Coffinet
Azize Kabouche as Chtouki
François Hadji-Lazaro as Le Ny
Jean-Marie Winling as Pierre Lemarchand
Franck Tiozzo as Georges Boucheseiche
Jo Prestia as Dubail
José María Blanco as The judge
Georges Bigot as Inspector Louis Souchon
Rony Kramer as Lopez
Xavier Serrat as Voitot
Brahim Aït El Kadi as Thami Azzemouri
Mouna Fettou as Ghita Ben Barka
Fayçal Khyari as Mohamed Oufkir
Abdellatif Khamolli as Ahmed Dlimi
Hubert Saint-Macary as The doctor

References

"J\'ai vu tuer Ben Barka (2005) - JPBox-Office".
"I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed".
Orlando, Valerie; Orlando, Valerie K. (2011). Screening Morocco: Contemporary Depictions in Film of a Changing Society. Ohio University Press. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-89680-281-0.

External links

J'ai vu tuer Ben Barka at IMDb

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[1] "J\'ai vu tuer Ben Barka (2005) - JPBox-Office".

[2] "I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed".

[3] Orlando, Valerie; Orlando, Valerie K. (2011). Screening Morocco: Contemporary Depictions in Film of a Changing Society. Ohio University Press. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-89680-281-0.