Bastardo

1h 46m
Drama
7

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.

Cast

Ahmed Abdelmonaâm Chouayet
Mohsen Bastardo
Lobna Noomene
Bent Essengra
Taoufik El Bahri
Khlifa
Chedly Arfaoui
Larnouba
Lasaad Ben Abdallah
Khadhra
Issa Harath
Am Salah
Latifa Gafsi
Unknown
Bilel Briki
Unknown
Ramzi Slim
Unknown

Crew

Néjib Belkadhi
Director, Screenplay
Nicolas Simonin
Screenplay
Pascale Chavance
Editor
Badi Chouka
Editor
Gergely Pohárnok
Director of Photography
Farès Ladjimi
Producer
Nicolas Cagniard
Additional Camera
Franck Desmoulins
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Yassine Meliani
Sound Recordist
Bessem Marzouk
Set Decoration
Raouf Hiloui
Art Direction

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