OPERATION CASABLANCA
synopsis
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.
international title: | Operation Casablanca |
original title: | Opération Casablanca |
country: | Switzerland, Canada, France |
sales agent: | The Yellow Affair |
year: | 2011 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Laurent Nègre |
film run: | 90' |
release date: | CH 09/11/2011 |
screenplay: | Laurent Nègre |
cast: | Tarik Bakhari, Elodie Yung, Gilles Tschudi, Zinedine Soualem, Jean-Luc Bideau, Julieta Serrano, Antoine Basler, Émile Proulx-Cloutier, Yoshi Oïda, Hicham Nazzal |
cinematography by: | Yves Bélanger |
film editing: | Julien Sulser, Jean-Paul Cardinaux, Xavier Ruiz |
art director: | Sébastian Birchler |
costumes designer: | Nicole Ferrari |
music: | Ramachandra Bocar |
producer: | Dan Wechsler |
production: | Bord Cadre films, Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo, Peacock Film, RTS - Radio Télévision Suisse, Lyla Films/Montréal, Telefilm Canada/Montréal |
distributor: | Columbus Film, KapFilms (ex-Kanibal Films Distribution) |