# Un profeta (2009)

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**Original title**: *Un prophète*
**Runtime**: 155 min
**Genres**: Crime, Drama
**Directed by**: Jacques Audiard
**Written by**: Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain
**Starring**: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb, Jean-Philippe Ricci

> *Escaping the prison of life.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A French prison, winter, clanging gates. A young illiterate inmate falls under Corsican control, toughens with each mission. Audiard finds humanity in harsh confinement.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, outsider, raw, slow-burn

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