I SAW BEN BARKA GET KILLED (2005)

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Plot

January 1966: in a Paris flat police discover the body of Georges Figon. A year earlier, tired of dodgy deals and petty scams, ex-con Georges Figon had gone in search of something big and, through his underworld connections, had got himself hired as producer for a documentary on de-colonialisation to be written by Marguerite Duras and directed by Georges Franju. The well-known Moroccan dissident Mehdi Ben Barka was to be the film's 'historical advisor', but the whole film project was an elaborate, and ultimately lethal, plan to entrap Barka. A truly gripping re-enactment of yet another dark contemporary chapter in France's non-democratic history.