SECRET OF THE GRAIN

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• Release Year: 2007
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired 60-year-old, drags himself toward a shipyard job that has become more and more difficult to cope with as the years go by. He is a divorced father who forces himself to stay close to his family despite the schisms and tensions that are easily sparked off and that financial difficulties make even more intense. He is going through a delicate period in his life and, recently, everything seems to make him feel useless: a failure. He wants to escape from it all and set up his own restaurant. However, it appears to be an unreachable dream given his meager, irregular salary that is not anywhere near enough to supply what he needs to realize his ambition. But he can still dream and talk about it with his family in particular. A family that gradually gives its support to this project, which comes to symbolize the means to a better life. Thanks to its ingeniousness and hard work, this dream soon becomes a reality...or almost....
• Cast: Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Farida Benkhetache, Abdelhamid Aktouche, Alice Houri, Bouraouïa Marzouk, Cyril Favre, Leila D'Issernio, Abelkader Djeloulli, Bruno Lochet, Olivier Loustau, Sami Zitouni, Sabrina Ouazani, Mohamed Benabdeslem, Hatika Karaoui, Henri Rodriguez, Nadia Taoul, Jeanne Corporon, Francis Arnaud, Henri Cohen, Violaine de Carne, Hélène Geier, Ezzadine Bouzid, Salah Eldin Mohamed, Rabah Khalfa, Idwar Iskandar, Benhaïssa Ahouari, Rosalie Symon, Carole Franck, Gilbert Rouvière, Nourdine Midoun, Abderrahmane Zeroual, Khadidja Taoul, Claude Geraud, Mélèze Bouzid, José Rodriguez, Axel Yahimi, Safia Khanchaf, François Rodriguez, Nadia Daïf, Flore Hamidani, Sylvain Phan, Tarik Alhakeue, Mohamed Amry, Kader Boulanouar, Magid Dahou, Abdelazaid Douich, Adil Iben El Madani, Brahim Oulmadani, Paloma Casanova, Gilles Matheron, Doris Stern, Salah Zaït, Abdellatif Kechiche
• Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
• Runtime: 2:34
• Company: Mongrel Media
• Media Format: Movie