Winner of four Cesar awards, including best picture and director, Abdellatif Kechiche's The Secret Of The Grain is a stirring drama about the daily joys and struggles of a bustling French-Arab family. It has the texture of a documentary but a classic, almost Shakespearean structure: when patriarch Slimane acts on his wish to open a port-side restaurant specializing in his ex-wife's fish couscous, the extended clan's passions and problems explode in riveting drama, leading to an engrossing, suspenseful climax. With sensitivity and grit, The Secret Of The Grain celebrates the role food plays in family life and gets to the core of contemporary immigrant experience.

Slimane Beiji, Hafenarbeiter im südfranzösischen Sete, ist den Anforderungen seines Jobs nicht mehr gewachsen und soll entlassen werden. Das Verhältnis zu seiner geschiedenen Frau und den Kindern ist angespannt. Aber Monsieur Slimane hat einen Traum: die Eröffnung eines eigenen Restaurants! Nach und nach vereint sich die ganze Familie durch dieses Projekt - und ein Traum erwacht zum Leben...

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Director	Abdellatif Kechiche
Actor	Mohamed Benabdeslem, Farida Benkhetache, Habib Boufares, Alice Houri
Label	CRITERION

Genre	Drama
Content	DVD
FSK / age rating	from age 0
Publication date	27.07.2010
Region code	1
Edition	Criterion Collection
Version	US Version
Year of production	2007
Length	151 Minutes
Audio	French, Arab
Subtitles	English

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