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I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed [DVD]

I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed [DVD]

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Album Title I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed [2005] [DVD]
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This compelling and stylish noir thriller is based on one of the most notorious French political scandals of the 60s - the disappearance of the prominent Moroccan dissident Mehdi Ben Barka.

In a Paris apartment in 1965, police discover the body of ex-con George Figon. A year earlier, tired of dodgy deals and petty scams, Figon had gone in search of something big.  Through his underworld connections he had got himself hired as a producer for a documentary on decolonisation written by Marguerite Duras and directed by Georges Franju, with Ben Barka as 'historical advisor'. But when Figon set up a meeting with Barka in Paris, the whole film project was revealed to be an elaborate trap

 

 

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