Tangier

Tangier

Hell in Tangier

2006 · 105 min · ★ 6.7 · Thriller, Drama

In August 1996, bus drivers Marcel Van Loock and Wim Moreels are apprehended by the Moroccan Customs for drug trafficking. Inside their bus, hidden behind a false compartment, they have discovered 700 pounds of hashish. Although the owner of the bus company is arrested as well and makes a full confession clearly indicating that both drivers were unaware of the hidden drugs, the Moroccan judge sentences both men to 5 years in the Moroccan prison of Tangiers. Nothing could have prepared the two men for life inside a Moroccan prison. Without food, clothes or medical care, they must learn how to take care of themselves to survive their stay in prison. Corrupt guards, corrupt lawyers and judges, a consul who doesn't care and frequent beatings are only part of the terrible prison. Meanwhile their families at home are left without any information, any help or any hope - finding out that their own government doesn't care for Belgian people in prisons abroad.

Directed by Frank van Mechelen · Written by Paul Piedfort

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Filip Peeters Marcel Van Loock
Peter Gorissen Rudy Vermeersch
Veerle de Jonghe Veronique
Warre Borgmans Jozef Van Zuylen
Els Olaerts Agnes Van Loock
Peter Bolhuis Jack Scholten
Axel Daeseleire Wim Moreels

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