Rabat (film)

2011 Dutch road movie

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Rabat

Theatrical release poster

Directed by| Victor D. Ponten
Jim Taihuttu
Written by| Victor D. Ponten
Jim Taihuttu
Produced by| Julius Ponten
Frieder Wallis
Starring|

* Achmed Akkabi
* Mohamed Benbrahim
* Jacqueline Bir
* Stéphane Caillard
* Slimane Dazi
* Nasrdin Dchar
* Marwan Kenzari
* Mohamed Majd
* Julius Ponten
* Walid Rhord

Cinematography| Lennart Verstegen
Alex Wuijts
Edited by| Wouter van Luijn
Music by| Mark van den Oever

Production
company

Habbekrats

Distributed by| Benelux Film Distributors

Release date

* 9 June 2011 (2011-06-09)[1]

Running time

| 105 minutes
Country| Netherlands
Languages| Dutch
French
Spanish
Arabic
English
Box office| $545,764[2]

Rabat is a 2011 Dutch road film, and the first film made by Jim Taihattu and Victor Ponten, from independent Dutch advertising company Habbekrats. It was filmed in the summer of 2010 during a period of five weeks.[3] The premiere was on the 6 June 2011 at Tuschinski in Amsterdam. The three main characters are played by Nasrdin Dchar, Achmed Akkabi and Marwan Kenzari.

## Plot

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In the movie Nadir (Nasrdin Dchar) has to bring a taxi that used to belong to his dad, to his uncle in Rabat, in Morocco.

At first he intends to go alone, but his two friends Abdel and Zakaria invite themselves along. They travel through the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain and Morocco. Along the way they experience all kind of things. In France they picked up a hitchhiker called Julie, with whom he falls in love. In Spain they get arrested and treated unfairly by the police, and when they go clubbing in Barcelona with Julie and her friends, they aren't allowed in the club, because they're foreigners. Along the way Nadir is keeping a secret from his two best friends with whom he has been friends with for seventeen years, and is planning on opening a shoarma restaurant with. The secret causes a big fight on their way there, but also makes their friendship stronger.

At the end they all go their own way; Nadir goes back to Barcelona, to Julie, Zakaria goes to visit and find his family in Tunisia, and Abdel goes back to Amsterdam to start up their shoarma restaurant.

## Cast

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* Nasrdin Dchar as Nadir
* Achmed Akkabi as Abdel
* Marwan Kenzari as Zakaria
* Stéphane Caillard as Julie
* Nadia Kounda as Yasmina
* Slimane Dazi as Dade Exporter

## References

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1. ^ "Rabat". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
2. ^ "Rabat (2011)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
3. ^ "BN'ers massaal naar Rabat - RTL Boulevard". www.rtl.nl. Archived from the original on 2011-06-11.

## External links

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* Rabat at IMDb
* Rabat on Cineuropa

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