| Cast |
Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb, Jean-Philippe Ricci, Gilles Cohen |
| Director |
Jacques Audiard |
| Screenplay | Thomas Bidegain, Jacques Audiard, based on the screenplay by Abdel Raouf Dafri, Nicolas Peufaillit |
| Music | Alexandre Desplat |
| Cinematography | Stephane Fontaine |
| Editing | Juliette Welfling |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2009 |
| Produced by | A consortium of European companies |
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| Genre | Action, drama |
| Language | Strong and frequent |
| Nudity | Moderate, in sexual and non-sexual context |
| Sex | A couple of pretty strongly implied scenes |
| Violence | Moderate to strong, frequent, bloody |
| Prejudice | Mild |
| Blasphemy | Infrequent |
| Drug abuse | Tobacco use and references to drugs, fairly often |
| Comments | None |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert | 20 |  |
| eye Weekly Jason Anderson  A Prophet is admirably ruthless about achieving its ends. | 15 | |
| Rolling Stone Peter Travers Director Jacques Audiard scores a triumph of the highest order with the defiant poetry of his vision. A Prophet is a new crime classic. | 20 | |
| Metacritic.com 28 critics | 18 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 120 critics | 16 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Featuring an impressive star turn by newcomer Tahar Rahim, A Prophet is a French gangster film filled with arresting, immediate details. | 19 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 8618 Netizens Excellent tough & rough prison gangster film | 16 | |
Average .. 89% | 18 | |