The Insult (2017)

Original title

L'Insulte

Directed by

Ziad Doueiri

Genre

drama film

Country

Lebanon, France

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

12

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 477 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A dispute between a Lebanese Christian mechanic and a Palestinian foreman escalates into a high-profile court case. Their personal conflict exposes deep political fractures in Lebanon.

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What happens

The Insult (Arabic: قضية رقم ٢٣, romanized: Qadiyya raqm 23, lit. 'Case No. 23', French: L'insulte) is a 2017 Lebanese legal drama film directed by Ziad Doueiri and co-written by Doueiri and Joelle Touma. It was screened in the main competition section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival. At Venice, Kamel El Basha won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. It was selected as the Lebanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for the Oscar at the 90th Academy Awards. The film tells the story of two men: Tony George Hanna (Adel Karam), a Lebanese Christian mechanic, and Yasser Salameh (Kamel El Basha), a Palestinian foreman, who are embroiled in a court case which causes political upheaval in an already unstable country. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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