Free Men

Original title: Les hommes libres

2011
Unrated
1h 39m

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

1.5K

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In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man.

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In Paris during World War II, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man.In Paris during World War II, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man.In Paris during World War II, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man.

Director
- Ismaël Ferroukhi
Writers
- Ismaël Ferroukhi
- Alain-Michel Blanc
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IMDb RATING

6.6/10

1.5K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Ismaël Ferroukhi
Writers
- Ismaël Ferroukhi
- Alain-Michel Blanc
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations

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Trivia
Filmed in ten weeks in France and Morocco.

Goofs
When Younes goes to deliver the fake IDs he passes two times by the same old painter on the Seine embankment (timing: 38 min).

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El Andalous
Written by Salim Halali

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8/10

Worth seeing

FREE MEN was just screened to a sold-out crowd at the Rendez-vous with French Cinema in New York. It was a wonderfully acted, well told fictional film of Arabs helping resistance fighters (including North African Jews) during the German occupation of France during WW2.

Dramatic and suspenseful, pitting collaborators versus resistance fighters, gestapo officials versus the authorities at a mosque.

Given the ethnic tensions in Paris today, this film offers an alternate vision of unity in the face of oppression.

Definitely worth seeing on the festival circuit or in art house release.