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      Living in Paradise

      Released Mar 17, 1999 1h 44m Drama List
      Reviews To escape the bloody war for independence raging in his homeland of Algeria during the early 1960s, immigrant construction worker Lakhdar (Roschdy Zem) convinces the rest of his family to join him in France. But his shantytown existence among thousands of other poor immigrants is far from the paradise he made it seem to his wife, Nora (Fadila Belkebla), and as he struggles to find the money to buy his family a proper apartment, she becomes increasingly radicalized politically. Read More Read Less

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      Synopsis To escape the bloody war for independence raging in his homeland of Algeria during the early 1960s, immigrant construction worker Lakhdar (Roschdy Zem) convinces the rest of his family to join him in France. But his shantytown existence among thousands of other poor immigrants is far from the paradise he made it seem to his wife, Nora (Fadila Belkebla), and as he struggles to find the money to buy his family a proper apartment, she becomes increasingly radicalized politically.
      Director
      Bourlem Guerdjou
      Screenwriter
      Brahim Benaïcha, Bourlem Guerdjou, Olivier Lorelle
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      French (Canada)
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Mar 17, 1999, Original
      Runtime
      1h 44m
      Sound Mix
      Dolby SR