Les Hommes libres (2011) - film review

1942, Paris under Nazi occupation.  Younes is a young Algerian immigrant who makes a living on the black market.  Arrested by the police, he agrees to work for them as a spy at the Paris mosque.  The police suspect that the senior clerics at the mosque are furnishing Jews and resistance members with forged papers.  At the mosque, Younes comes into contact with an Algerian singer, Salim Halali, with whom he develops an instant rapport.   Aware of the risks he is taking, Younes decides to renege on his arrangement with the police and instead allies himself with the resistance cause....

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