Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 2011


Death for Sale

Buy Death for Sale now from Amazon

First, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.

Wikipedia article




'Death for Sale' is a 2011 film directed by Faouzi Bensadi. The film was selected as the Moroccan entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.

Plot



Drifting youngsters under the leaden sky of Tetouan, a city in northern Morocco. Malik, Allal and Soufiane, are desperate petty criminals, who try to flee a life of material and moral poverty. None of them finds a way out: Malik is in love with the prostitute Dounia and to help her accepts working with a corrupt police inspector, Allal pushes drugs and has the police hot on his heels, Soufiane gives vent to his rage by embracing the cause of fundamentalism. The three friends decide to attempt a job in a jeweller's for a last chance.[http://www.festivalcinemaafricano.org/eng/index.php?pag=vis_film&id_film=839 African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival - Milan] - 22nd edition ([http://www.festivalcinemaafricano.org license CC BY-SA])

Awards



* Berlin International Film Festival 2012

* Brussels Film Festival 2012

* Moroccan National Film Festival 2012

See also



* List of submissions to the 85th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

* List of Moroccan submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References




Buy Death for Sale now from Amazon

<-- Return to movies from 2011



This work is released under CC-BY-SA. Some or all of this content attributed to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1109832209.