Opération Casablanca

Operation Casablanca

Switzerland / Canada / France, October 2010
FILM, Fiction, 90 min.

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directed by
Laurent Nègre
Written by
Laurent Nègre
Status
In distribution
Website
www.operation-casablanca.com

One day, Saadi finally snaps. His boss has mistreated him one time too many. But when the young dishwasher, a North African illegal immigrant dares to protest, he is summarily fired. Leaving the rundown hotel in the outskirts of Geneva, on foot and with all his belongings in a shoulder bag, he becomes entangled in a terrorist group's attempt to kidnap the Secretary-General of the United Nations and is surrounded by a SWAT team battalion who has mistaken him for one of the Arab criminals. With both the terrorists and the police gunning for him, desperate to keep from going under in this vortex of insanity, Saadi has no choice but to play along with the fundamentalists and try to find his own piece of heaven.

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World Premiere
October 2010
Original Version
French,  colour, 35mm, 90 min.
Production
Bord Cadre films Sàrl, Lyla Films, Ex Nihilo, Peacock Film AG, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, Telefilm Canada
Producer
Dan Wechsler
directed by
Laurent Nègre
Written by
Laurent Nègre
Cinemato­graphy
Yves Bélanger
Editing
Julien Sulser, Jean-Paul Cardinaux, Xavier Ruiz
Music
Ramachandra Bocar
Location Sound Mix
Jürg Lempen
Production Design
Sébastian Birchler
Lighting Design
Bruno Ferland
Costumes
Nicole Ferrari
Casting
Gigi Akoka, Marie Jean Seille, Mustafa Ziraoui, Emmanuel Dorand

Cast

Tarik Bakhari as Saadi
Élodie Yung as Isako
Gilles Tschudi as Glauser
Zinedine Soualem as Hassan
Jean-Luc Bideau as Michel
Julieta Serrano as Mme Rueda
Antoine Basler as Rueda
Émile Proulx-Cloutier as Abdelghani
Yoshi Oïda as Takahata
Hicham Nazzal as Youssef

World Sales / World Rights

World Sales
The Yellow Affair

Worldwide Distribution

Canada
Axia Films Distribution
France
Kanibal Films Distribution Distribution
Release date: 01.12.2011

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