Morituri
Synopsis
Civil war tears Algeria apart. Police captain Brahim Llob, also a writer in his spare time, spends his days hunting down Islamic fundamentalists. He has hence become their prime target; each day his fear grows as he goes to work at the Alger police headquarters. He must find a former senior government official’s daughter who has gone missing.
Upright, with a biting wit and mocking attitude, cynical and disillusioned, Llob heads the investigation with his colleagues, officers Lino and Serdj. He quickly realizes that he’s treading on dangerous ground. His investigation leads him on the trail of a terrorist group given the task of wiping out Algerian intellectuals, and to people implicated in a scandal to do with the national bank.
He then discovers, with the assistance of his colleague Dine, his ousted predecessor, that he has been manipulated by a politico-financial mafia. Now a nuisance for the powers that be, and on the brink of publishing Morituri, an exposé, Llob is forced to take e...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (8)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Wallworks
- Co-production : Elison
- Foreign production companies : Le Canal CMS, ENTV - Entreprise Nationale Télévisuelle
- Film exports/foreign sales : Cinexport
- French distribution : Armor Films
Full credits (12)
- Executive Producers : Claude Kunetz, Bachir Derrais
- Screenwriters : Okacha Touita, Nadia Char, Michel Alexandre
- Director of Photography : Allel Yahiaoui
- Music Composer : Rachid Taha
- Assistant director : Yacine Laloui
- Editor : Julia Schindel
- Sound Recordist : Dominique Warnier
- Author of original work : Yasmina Khadra
- Press Attaché (film) : Fabienne Ferreira-Barbosa
- Sound Editor : Christophe Zucconi
- Production Designer : Larbi Arezki
- Sound Mixer : Fred Bielle
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Crime/thriller, Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Algeria
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
