Red Soil/Rouge 2020
- Director: Farid Bentoumi
- Based on the book: no
- Cast: Zita Hanrot, Sami Bouajila, C´line Salette
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Sami Bouajila – London River
- Why? It sounded good.
- Seen: 16 September 2023
Nour (Hanrot), a nurse, gets a job with her father’s (Bouajila) help at the chemical factory where he and most of town work. She’s happy to be with her family again but dismayed and increasingly upset by the lack of the employees’ health care, the shoddiness or absence of safety equipment, and most alarming, the factory’s dumping of toxic waste nearby. Everyone, including her father, tells her to leave it alone, the factory is breaking no laws.
Her continued investigation shows
otherwise but she’s blocked at every turn by the factory bigwigs who are afraid
to lose their state subventions and permits, by the workers who are afraid of
losing their jobs, by her family.
There have been many good whistle blower
films. This is among the best.
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