Mektoub

Plot

This fact-based French-Moroccan film won the "Best First Feature" award at the 1997 Cairo Film Festival. After U.S. training, ophthalmologist Taoufik returns to Casablanca to launch a practice with his wife Sophia. At a luxury Tangier hotel, he is drugged while Sophia is abducted, raped, and left in the street. Carrying his brother's gun, Taoufik gets a hotel staffer to lead him to the kidnappers. After shooting a man who turns out to be with the police, the couple flee from corrupt cops, and a chase is conducted over the countryside with Taoufik holding the key evidence -- a videotape of the rape. The title translates as "predestined." Shown at the 1998 Rotterdam Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi

Cast

• Rachid El Ouali
• Amal Chabli
• Mohammed Miftah
• Faouzi Bensaidi
• Mohamed Zouhair

Credit

Nabil Ayouch - Director, Jean-Robert Thomann - Editor, Pierre Boscheron - Composer (Music Score), Henri Agoel - Composer (Music Score), Vincent Mathias - Cinematographer, Joel Rangon - Sound/Sound Designer, Eric Lesachet - Sound/Sound Designer, Nabil Ayouch - Screenwriter

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