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J'ai Vu Tuer Ben Barka - I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed (12A)
- Consumer Advice: Contains moderate violence
- Run time: 1 hour 43 mins
- Language: French
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 20th October 2006
- Starring: Charles Berling, Simon Abkarian, Josiane Balasko
- Directed by: Serge Le Peron, Said Smihi
- Distributor: Artificial Eye
Plot Synopsis
January 1966: In a Paris flat police discover the body of Georges Figon, the man who broke the scandal of the Ben Barka affair and undermined Gaullist power.
A year earlier, tired of dodgy deals and petty scams, ex-con Georges Figon had gone in search of something big. Through his underworld connections he had got himself hired as producer for a documentary on decolonialisation to be written by Marguerite Duras and directed by Georges Franju. The well-known Moroccan dissident Mehdi Ben Barka was to be the film’s ‘historical advisor’. But the whole film project was a trap…