Djihad!

Release Date: 2006-12-01

Overview: A hard-hitting French drama detailing the intersecting destinies of five characters whose lives cross over the current war in Iraq: three young French Arabs who each for a different reason joins a jihadi group to fight against the Americans; a 40-something French woman running an NGO in Baghdad at the outbreak of the war who gets kidnapped and held by the jihadi insurgents; and a mid-level French diplomat who uncovers the corruption of the UN Oil for Food program while gathering evidence to support the French effort to prevent the war.

Rating: 6 / 10

Cast

Saïd Taghmaoui

as Youssef

Makram J. Khoury

as Médecin de l'hôpital

Adel Bencherif

as Karim

Marianne Denicourt

as Delphine Le Guen

Thierry Frémont

as Hugo Bessières