The Marchers

The Marchers French La Marche is a 2013 French comedydrama film by Nabil Ben Yadir. It is loosely based on the events surrounding the 1983 March for Equality and Against Racism.

In 1983 France, teenaged Mohamed Jallab is shot by a policeman, but survives. Rejecting his friends proposal of violent retribution, he proposes political action inspired by Gandhi and Martin Luther King. With two friends, and support from Dubois Gourmet, the priest of Minguettes Lyon, they embark on a nonviolent March for Equality and Against Racism between Marseille and Paris.Answering a question about taking liberties with the narration when telling a true story, director and cowriter Ben Yadir said You focus on the great History the towns, the march of the torches, the return to Lyon, the death of Habib Grimzifr , all these images that pull you back to reality... But at the start in Marseilles, there was a group of 32, and we obviously could not make a movie withcharacters. We thus createdcharacters around which we built short stories. ........

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