Feature film — 2018
Close Enemies (2018)
Driss and Manuel both grew up on the same council estate. An estate where the sense of belonging to your patch is much stronger than the sense of belonging to a country, a nation or a culture... Manuel has assimilated this belonging, and he has even benefited from it and built his life on it. Driss, meanwhile, has shunned it. They will both have to face up to the consequences of their decisions – because they will each have a price to pay…
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A high-signal pick with 215 votes.
One World Films / Bac Films / Versus Production
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Director: David Oelhoffen
On screen
Cast & crew
Matthias Schoenaerts
Manuel Marco
Reda Kateb
Driss, captain of the narcotics squad
Adel Bencherif
Imrane Mogalia, aka 'Tonton'
Sofiane Zermani
Fouad
Sabrina Ouazani
Mounia, Imrane's companion
Gwendolyn Gourvenec
Manon, Manuel's ex-companion
Nicolas Giraud
Rémi Rufo
Astrid Whettnall
Head of the narcotics squad
Marc Barbé
Marc, narcotics squad
Yann Goven
Fernandez, narcotics squad
Ahmed Benaissa
Raji, "godfather" of the estate
Omar Salim
Nouri, Raji's man