Movie2012 · Released · 100 min
During WW2, three football playing young men from Oran (then French Algeria) become friends: the bourgeois student Antoine, Benjamin, a promising student from a modest Jewish family, and Kateb, an Arab fisherman's son. But will their friendship survive as the French Vichy regime, collaborating with the Nazis, harasses the Jews and discriminates the Arab population?
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