The illiterate eighteen year-old Franco-Arab Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) is sent to Brécourt prison sentenced to six years for assaulting police officers. Alone and without money, Malik finds unprotected in an environment of corruption and violence divided by the Corsican and Muslim gangs. The powerful Corsican mobster César Luciani (Niels Arestrup) forces him to kill the Muslin Reyeb (Hichem Yacoubi) and then gives support and protection to him in his gang. Malik befriends Ryad (Adel Bencherif) that teaches him how to read and write and they become best friends. Meanwhile César uses Malik to help him outside prison in his dirty business with casinos. Malik also learns how to deal drugs and climbs positions in the hierarchy of César's mafia.
"Un Prophète" is the story of a smalltime punk that leans how to survive in a French prison and graduates in crime in the end. The acting is great; the story is very realistic; but this film is overrated in IMDb. The title "A Prophet" is never clear and the director Jacques Audiard uses the surrealistic vision of Reyeb to give the status of cult to this film that is in the end, a good movie about prison. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "O Profeta" ("The Prophet")
"Un Prophète" is the story of a smalltime punk that leans how to survive in a French prison and graduates in crime in the end. The acting is great; the story is very realistic; but this film is overrated in IMDb. The title "A Prophet" is never clear and the director Jacques Audiard uses the surrealistic vision of Reyeb to give the status of cult to this film that is in the end, a good movie about prison. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "O Profeta" ("The Prophet")