Mektoub (1998)
Directed by Nabil Ayouch
Genres - Mystery |
Sub-Genres - Crime Drama |
Run Time - 91 min. |
Countries - France, Morocco |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Bhob Stewart
This fact-based French-Moroccan film won the "Best First Feature" award at the 1997 Cairo Film Festival. After U.S. training, ophthalmologist Taoufik returns to Casablanca to launch a practice with his wife Sophia. At a luxury Tangier hotel, he is drugged while Sophia is abducted, raped, and left in the street. Carrying his brother's gun, Taoufik gets a hotel staffer to lead him to the kidnappers. After shooting a man who turns out to be with the police, the couple flee from corrupt cops, and a chase is conducted over the countryside with Taoufik holding the key evidence -- a videotape of the rape. The title translates as "predestined." Shown at the 1998 Rotterdam Film Festival.
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corruption, doctor/nurse, kidnapping, on-the-run, ophthalmology, police, rape, revenge, wife