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L'échappée (Escape)

L'échappée (Escape)

Original Title: L'échappée

201721m

Status

Released

Release

2017

Runtime

21m

Storyline

Hocine Filali is a forty-something year old taxi driver in the port city of Algiers. His day-to-day routine has him snaking through thick morning traffic, bustling boulevards, and the occasional military checkpoint. In the distance, the sound of the call to prayer mixes with the crash of ocean waves as they bring word of what life might be like elsewhere, across the ocean, in Italy.

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
21m
Oct 1, 2017
Languages
ArabicFrenchItalian
Director
Hamid Saïdji
Jonathan Mason

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