Horses of God

Horses of God French Les chevaux de Dieu , Arabic , translit. Ya khayl Allah is 2012 Moroccan drama film about the 2003 Casablanca bombings. It was directed by Nabil Ayouch, and based on the novel The Stars of Sidi Moumen by Moroccan writer Mahi Binebine. The film won several awards, and was Moroccos submission for the 85th Academy Awards held in February 2013.

In 1999, the shanty town is significantly larger, and Hassan II of Morocco has just died. Yachine, Nabil, Fouad, and Khalil spend their time smoking pot, and Yachine is in love with Ghislaine, Fouads sister. Hamid is now a major drug dealer, paying off the policeman known as Pitbull and forcing Yachine to stay out of the drug business. Religious zealots force Tamou to leave town. Hamid is given a twoyear prison sentence after throwing a rock at Pitbulls car. Yachine is forced out of the marketplace in the medina, and Nabil gets him a job repairing engines for repairman BaMoussa.The day after the Septemberattacks, Hamid is released from prison, having given up drugs and embraced radical Islam. Yachine kills BaMoussa after the drunk man attempts to rape Nabil. Nabil gets Hamid, and he and his radical friends hide the body. Hamid gives the two refuge in an Islamic compound hidden within the shanty town, and Yachine and Nabil meet with Abou Zoubeirwho begins to recruit them into radical Islam. Nouceir, a former neighborhood enemy and now one of Hamids close friends, intimidates Khalil and Fouad into joining the cell also. All four begin learning jujutsu. Yachine, feeling immense guilt over murdering BaMoussa, spends the night with Nabil. d But he is also drawn to Zebeirs message of forgiveness through adherence to radical Islam. ........

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