I SAW BEN BARKA GET KILLED
J'AI VU TUER BEN BARKA
A film by Serge LE PERON
2005 - France - Political Thriller
"[...] the plot's mix of highbrows, low-lives and film-biz glamour offers a pleasing brain-stretching buzz similar to "L.A. Confidential" (VARIETY)
Early 1965, the journalist Georges Figon, riddled with debt, is offered a strange assignment: a crime organisation offers him to produce a documentary about decolonisation. Marguerite Duras would write the commentary and Georges Franju would direct. A certain Mehdi Ben Barka would be hired as historical consultant. But the film turns out to be a trap: Ben Barka is arrested. The affair gains amplitude and becomes a political scandal.
George Figon Charles Berling
Mehdi Ben Barka Simon Abkarian
Marguerite Duras Josiane Balasko
Georges Franju Jean-Pierre Léaud
Anne-Marie Fabienne Babe
ProductionGilles Sandoz | Maia Films
ScreenplaySerge Le Péron
ScreenplaySa Smihi
ScreenplayFrédérique Moreau
CinematographyChristophe Pollock
EditingJanice Jones
Format 35mm - 1.85
Length 101 min
Domestic release : 2005-11-02 Rezo