Bastardo
6.8
Larger-than-life characters populate director Nejib Belkadhi’s spellbinding combination of film noir and magic realism, which follows a downtrodden orphan — now grown but still saddled with a cruel nickname — who has a reversal of fortune and takes on the thugs who control his ghetto.
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Cast
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Ahmed Abdelmonaâm Chouayet
Mohsen Bastardo
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Chedly Arfaoui
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Beauty and the Dogs
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Hammamet
Issa Harath
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Latifa Gafsi
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Néjib Belkadhi Director · Nicolas Simonin Screenplay Lone Wolf Composer
First release September 8, 2013 · Produced in France, Qatar, Tunisia · Production Mille et une productions
Production
Propaganda Productions
Production
Mille et une productions
Production
France · Qatar · Tunisia
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Languages
Original title
باستاردو
Original language
Arabic
Spoken on screen
Arabic
Release dates
Canada · September 8, 2013
Toronto International Film Festival
Tunisia · September 9, 2013
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
April 27, 2014 · Lyon Festival Cinémas du Sud
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