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The Secret of the Grain
(2007)
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Habib Boufares | ... |
Slimane Beiji
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| Hafsia Herzi | ... |
Rym
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Farida Benkhetache | ... |
Karima
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Abdelhamid Aktouche | ... |
Hamid
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Alice Houri | ... |
Julia
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Bouraouïa Marzouk | ... |
Souad
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Cyril Favre | ... |
Serguei
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Leila D'Issernio | ... |
Lilia
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Abelkader Djeloulli | ... |
Kader
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Bruno Lochet | ... |
Mario
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| Olivier Loustau | ... |
José
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Sami Zitouni | ... |
Majid
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| Sabrina Ouazani | ... |
Olfa
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Mohamed Benabdeslem | ... |
Riadh
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Hatika Karaoui | ... |
Latifa
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Storyline
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.... Written by Venice Film Festival
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It takes will, courage and determination to realise a dream. But most of all it takes family See more »Genres:
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Country:
FranceRelease Date:
(Belgium) See more »Also Known As:
A kuszkusz titka See more »Box Office
Gross:
$86,356 (USA) (1 March 2009)Company Credits
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Digital capture (for this is a HD video movie) was supposed to start in the summer of 2005 but one of the leading actors was sick, which resulted in a major delay. Thus, filming actually started on 5 September 2005 and was still running by 16 January 2006. The set was on a boat in the port of Sète for at least six weeks from October to December 2006. Outside temperatures were very low, as opposed to what they should have been if schedule could have been held. This led the production to set up large tents near the boat with heating systems for the actors and extras to remain comfortable between takes. See more »
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