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Hors-la-loi
Rachid Bouchareb
The story begins in Algeria during the 1920's. Saïd (Jamel Debbouze, brilliant), Messaoud (Roschdy Zem) and Abdelkader (Sami Bouajila) are not even ten years old when their father's farm is confiscated by French police because he is unable to present a deed of ownership. Years later, on May 8, 1945, in Sétif where the family lives, a riot for Algeria's independence gets out of control and becomes a full-on massacre. As the town counts its dead, Abdelkader is deported to France where he is imprisoned. Saïd witnesses the last breath of his father and murdered sisters. In order to get closer to his imprisoned brother, he decides to go live in Paris. However, he has no intention on working as a measly laborer, he dreams instead of organizing boxing matches. In the meantime, he works for a pimp, against his mother's and brothers' wishes, while they enlist in the Algerian liberation movement FLN, which Abdelkader once out of prison gradually takes the reins of in France. Through the lives of these three brothers, "Outlaw" depicts the Algerian war in France.
Rachid Bouchareb was in Cannes with Outlaw, the continuation of "Indigènes", which was in competition in 2006. The French-Algerian director had also made the trip in 2008 as member of the jury for feature films.
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