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| Directed by | Jacques Audiard |
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| Story by | Abdel Raouf Dafri |
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| Cinematography | Stéphane Fontaine |
| Edited by | Juliette Welfling |
| Music by | Alexandre Desplat |
| Distributed by | UGC Distribution |
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Running time | 155 minutes[1] |
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| Budget | $13 million[2] |
| Box office | $17.9 million[2] |
A Prophet (French: Un prophète) is a 2009 French prison crime film directed by Jacques Audiard with a screenplay by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit, from a story by Dafri. The film stars Tahar Rahim in the title role as an imprisoned petty criminal of Algerian origin who rises in the prison hierarchy, becoming a mob associate and drug trafficker as he is absorbed into the Corsican mafia and then ingratiates himself into the Maghrebi crime syndicate.
The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards.
- ^ Un prophète - A Prophet. British Board of Film Classification. 16 October 2009. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
- ^ a b A Prophet (Un prophète). Box Office Mojo. 2010. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
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