At age 18, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) is just beginning a six-year prison sentence in this drama from director Jacques Audiard. Though he cannot read or write, Malik soon figures out the politics of the prison system, giving him a prime spot in the power struggle between two battling groups of prisoners. A PROPHET reunites Audiard with two of his stars from THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED, Niels Arestrup and Gilles Cohen, as well as that film’s director of photography, Stéphane Fontaine, and its composer, Alexandre Desplat. Read the interview with Director Audiard and lead actor Tahar Rahim in Filmmaker Magazine.

Nominated for the Academy Award AND the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film!

In French, Arabic and Corsican with English subtitles.

Director Jacques Audiard scores a triumph of the highest order with the defiant poetry of his vision.  -- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

A Prophet is one of those rare films in which the moral stakes are as insistent and thought through as the aesthetic choices. -- Manohla Dargis, New York Times

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