Djihad (TV series)

Djihad
Directed by	Félix Olivier
Produced by	Jacques Ouaniche
Written by	Félix Olivier Richard Schlesinger
Distributed by	Canal +
Release date(s)	2006 (2006)
Running time	2 x 100 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Plot

The lives and destinies of five French characters intersect during the Iraq War. Three young French Arabs (Cherif, Karim, and Youssef) each for a different reason joins a jihadi group to fight against the Americans. Delphine LeGuen, a 40-something French woman running an NGO in Baghdad at the outbreak of the war, gets kidnapped and held by the jihadi insurgents. Meanwhile, a mid-level French diplomat, Hugo Bessieres, uncovers French corruption of the UN Oil for Food program while gathering evidence to support his country's effort to prevent the war.

Cast

• Adel Bencherif as Karim
• Marianne Denicourt as Delphine Le Guen
• Thierry Frémont as Hugo Bessières
• Slimane Hadjar as Chérif
• Saïd Taghmaoui as Youssef