Bastard

Bastard

106 mins | Drama | Sept. 9, 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.

Bastard

106 mins | Drama | Sept. 9, 2013

Bastard
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.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers Mille et Une Productions, Propaganda Production
Original title Bastardo
Directors Néjib Belkadhi
Writers Nicolas Simonin, Néjib Belkadhi

Cast

Chedly Arfaoui

as Larnouba

Abdel Moneem Chouayat

as Mohsen Bastardo

Lobna Noomene

as Bent Essengra

Lasaad Ben Abdallah

as Khadhra

Taoufik El Bahri

as Khlifa

Issa Harath

as Am Salah