Morgan Sportès

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Morgan Sportès

Born October 12, 1947 · Algiers, France [now Algeria] (age 78)

Morgan Sportès is a French writer. He was born in Algiers in 1947. The author of more than 20 books, he has won the Prix Renaudot des lycéens (2006) for Maos, and the Prix Interallié (2011) and the Globes de Cristal (2012) for his novel Tout, tout de suite. Another novel L'Appât (1990) was turned into an award-winning movie by Bertrand Tavernier. Source: Article "Morgan Sportès" from Wikipedia in…

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Everything NowEverything Now · 2016
Everything Now
6.22016
MovieThriller
This gripping and wrenching thriller tells the story of Ilan Halimi who was kidnapped for ransom in a Paris suburb. His captors, who dub themselves The Gang of Barbarians, operate under the assumption that his Jewish heritage means he is worth a lot of money. Taking the audience through the harrowing experience of the Halimi family and sharing a searing insight into Ilan's vicious ordeal, the story tracks the massive but futile investigation doomed by near-misses and tragedy that triggered a national outcry. For 24 days the police, insistent upon handling the case as a normal for-ransom kidnapping, failed to recognize the anti-Semitic overtones of the abduction. Faithfully reenacting events from the view of the various characters, Tout, tout de suite raises troubling questions about the state of anti-Semitism and race relations in contemporary France.

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