
Watch: Les hommes libres 2011 123movies, Full Movie Online – Paris, occupied France, 1942. Younes, an uneducated Algerian immigrant, ekes out a very modest living on the black market. When the police catches him they set him free provided he infiltrates the Paris Mosque and spies on the rector. Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit is indeed suspected not only of providing false papers to Jews but of harboring some of them as well. Once within the precincts of the Mosque, Younes proves a poor secret agent, which displeases the police inspector in charge of him. In fact, at the mosque, Younes becomes every day more alert to the great tragedy in progress because of the Nazis. He also develops a deep friendship with a singer named Salim Halali. To his amazement, he discovers that Salim is both Jewish and homosexual….
Plot: In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim community in Paris during WWII, when the Paris Mosque and its dynamic leader played a pivotal role in supporting the resistance and rescuing Jews.
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Worth seeing
FREE MEN was just screened to a sold-out crowd at the Rendez-vous with French Cinema in New York. It was a wonderfully acted, well told fictional film of Arabs helping resistance fighters (including North African Jews) during the German occupation of France during WW2.Dramatic and suspenseful, pitting collaborators versus resistance fighters, gestapo officials versus the authorities at a mosque.
Given the ethnic tensions in Paris today, this film offers an alternate vision of unity in the face of oppression.
Definitely worth seeing on the festival circuit or in art house release.
Worth seeing
FREE MEN was just screened to a sold-out crowd at the Rendez-vous with French Cinema in New York. It was a wonderfully acted, well told fictional film of Arabs helping resistance fighters (including North African Jews) during the German occupation of France during WW2.Dramatic and suspenseful, pitting collaborators versus resistance fighters, gestapo officials versus the authorities at a mosque.
Given the ethnic tensions in Paris today, this film offers an alternate vision of unity in the face of oppression.
Definitely worth seeing on the festival circuit or in art house release.
Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 39 min (99 min) (France)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Unrated
Genre Drama, History, Romance
Director Ismaël Ferroukhi
Writer Ismaël Ferroukhi, Alain-Michel Blanc
Actors Tahar Rahim, Michael Lonsdale, Mahmud Shalaby
Country France
Awards 2 wins & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arricam LT, Zeiss Master Prime and Angenieux Optimo Lenses
Laboratory Laboratoires Éclair, Paris, France
Film Length 2,713 m
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 50D 5201, Vision3 250D 5207, Vision3 500T 5219)
Cinematographic Process Techniscope
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)