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A Prophet (Un Prophète)

September 2019

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April 2016

  • Jacques Audiard

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    The award-winning French director Jacques Audiard talks about his latest film, Dheepan, the story of Tamil refugees on a tough Parisian housing estate

January 2016

  • The original … Tahar Rahim in Jacques Audiard’s acclaimed thriller A Prophet.

    Sam Raimi in talks to direct remake of Jacques Audiard's A Prophet

    The Spider-Man director is taking on an update of the acclaimed French thriller, while original film’s director says he is “not interested” in a remake

March 2014

  • Tahar Rahim portrait

    Tahar Rahim: 'I've always refused to play terrorists'

    Jonathan Romney: The star of A Prophet is not to be typecast: his latest film, The Past, is an emotional drama, and there's a Christmas comedy in the pipeline

October 2013

  • Dennis Lehane to script Hollywood remake of A Prophet

    Crime novelist called in to work on American version of award-winning prison epic

November 2012

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October 2010

  • Scene from A Prophet (Un Prophète)

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June 2010

  • Jacques Audiard's A Prophet: exclusive deleted scenes

    The director talks us through scenes he cut from the 2009 Cannes Grand Prix winner and explains why they had to go

January 2010

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    A Prophet

    A young Arab climbs the gangster career ladder from new boy to hard man in Jacques Audiard's gripping French prison drama, writes Philip French
  • A Prophet

    A classic French thriller with racial overtones from the director of The Beat That My Heart Skipped. By Peter Bradshaw

  • Trailer park
    Film trailer: A Prophet (Un Prophète)

    An Arab youth condemned to six years in prison gains the confidence of the gang leader who rules the roost there

May 2009

  • Film talk
    Cast and crew of Cannes hit Un Prophète: 'Audiard is like a sculptor'

    Jacques Audiard's searing prison thriller A Prophet (Un Prophète) has just won the Grand Prix, the second prize at Cannes. The director and stars Tahar Rahim and Niels Arestrup tell Xan Brooks what drew them to the story – and how the film's jail represents multicultural France today

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