![]() ![]() His friend Vinz finds it and claims he will kill a cop if Abdel dies. ![]() Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Abdel Ahmed GhiliĨ wins & 13 nominations. Abdel, a local hoodlum, is hospitalized after a riot, where a policeman lost his gun. ![]() Now, with a newfound means to gain the respect he deserves, Vinz vows to kill a cop if his friend Abdel dies in the hospital, due the beating he received while in police custody. During the riots that took place a night before, a police officer lost his handgun in the ensuing madness, only to leave it for Vinz to find. Vinz, a Jew, Saïd, an Arab, and Hubert, a black boxer, have grown up in these French suburbs where high levels of diversity coupled with the racist and oppressive police force have raised tensions to a critical breaking point. The film follows three young men and their time spent in the French suburban “ghetto,” over a span of twenty-four hours. Mathieu Kassovitz’s landmark mid-90s drama throws a cinematic Molotov cocktail at structural racism, police brutality and media manipulation.
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