Bastardo (2013)
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.
Director:
Néjib Belkadhi
Writers:
Néjib Belkadhi, Nicolas Simonin.
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Ahmed Abdelmonaâm Chouayet as Mohsen Bastardo |
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Lobna Noomene as Bent Essengra |
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Taoufik El Bahri as Khlifa |
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Chedly Arfaoui as Larnouba |
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Lasaad Ben Abdallah as Khadhra |
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Issa Harath as Am Salah |
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Latifa Gafsi as |
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Bilel Briki as |
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Ramzi Slim as |
| Writing | Néjib Belkadhi | Screenplay |
| Directing | Néjib Belkadhi | Director |
| Crew | Yassine Meliani | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Franck Desmoulins | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Editing | Pascale Chavance | Editor |
| Camera | Gergely Pohárnok | Director of Photography |
| Art | Bessem Marzouk | Set Decoration |
| Camera | Nicolas Cagniard | Additional Camera |
| Editing | Badi Chouka | Editor |
| Writing | Nicolas Simonin | Screenplay |
| Production | Farès Ladjimi | Producer |
| Art | Raouf Hiloui | Art Direction |