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Ne m'abandonne pas

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Ne m'abandonne pas
GenreDrama
Screenplay by
  • Françoise Charpiat
  • Aude Marcle
Directed byXavier Durringer
Starring
Theme music composerNicolas Errèra
Country of originFrance
Original languageFrench
Production
ProducerJoëy Faré
Running time90 minutes
Production companyScarlett productions
Original release
NetworkFrance 2
Release3 February 2016 (2016-02-03)

Ne m'abandonne pas (French for Don't Leave Me) is a French TV movie directed by Xavier Durringer, which was broadcast on 3 February 2016 on France 2. The film deals with the topic of young French Muslims who are radicalized and encouraged to go to Syria to join the civil war.

Synopsis

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A French woman experiences her worst nightmare when she discovers that her 17-year-old daughter has been radicalized and plans to travel to Syria to meet her new husband, a jihadist she met online. In order to prevent this, the mother decides to completely isolate her daughter.

Cast

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  • Lina El Arabi as Chama
  • Samia Sassi as Inès, Chama's mother
  • Sami Bouajila as Sami, Chama's father
  • Marc Lavoine as Adrien, Louis' father
  • Léo Legrand as Louis, Chama's boyfriend, who is fighting in Syria
  • Tassadit Mandi as Chama's grandmother
  • Sofia Lesaffre as Yasmina, Chama's best friend
  • Louise Szpindel as Manon, an ex-convert back from Syria
  • Virgile M'Fouilou as Lieutenant Logley
  • Meriem Serbah as Nora
  • Bachir Tliti as Benjamin
  • Évelyne El Garby Klaï as Djemila, Sami's companion
  • Théo Taggueb as Noam, Chams's half-brother
  • Zoé Daddi-Bourcy as Louisa, Chama's half-sister
  • Clara Pirali as Carole
  • Nadir Louatib as Omar, a friend of Louis
  • Louis-Marie Audubert as the postman

Awards and recognition

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Wins

Nominations

  • Monte Carlo TV Festival 2017: Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries for Marc Lavoine

Legacy

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A petition was launched in 2016 to request the broadcast of the film in all French high schools. Addressed to Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the French Minister of National Education, the petition succeeded in reaching its objective of 43,172 signatures, and the Minister responded favourably to the project.[1]

References

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  1. ^ "Diffusion du téléfilm "Ne m'abandonne pas" dans les lycées de la République française" [Broadcast of the TV Movie "Ne m'abandonne pas" in High Schools in the French Republic.]. facebook.com (in French). Retrieved 15 April 2021.
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