I'm Not Dead

I'm Not Dead

2013 · 99 min · Drama

Yacine lives with his brother Jamel in a cramped Parisian apartment. He works as a motorcycle courier, although he is also a brilliant political science student. When a delivery job takes him to the home of his professor Richard Artaud, his life is thrown off course. Both the professor and his wife, an actress, show an extraordinary, if disturbingly paternalistic interest in him. Shortly thereafter, the professor suddenly dies and Yacine makes a strange confession to Eléonore: "I am not dead"

Directed by Mehdi Ben Attia · Written by Mehdi Ben Attia

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Maria de Medeiros Eléonore
Emmanuel Salinger Richard
Driss Ramdi Jamel
Mehdi Dehbi Yacine
Nicolas Maury Antoine Deloÿs
Salim Kéchiouche Abdallah
Albert Delpy Michel
Slimane Dazi Brahim
Dimitri Storoge Comedian who plays Azor
Alain Azerot Le comédien qui joue Carise

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