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The String(2009)
Status: Released
Date: 2009-05-12
68%
48 Votes
Time: 1h 33m
Overview:
Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik's problems seem to fade away when he falls for Bilal, the dreamy houseboy at his mother's bourgeois estate.
Languages: French.
Countries:
France,
Belgium,
Tunisia
ProductionCompanies: 
Propaganda Pictures
Movie: The String
Top 10 Billed Cast
Claudia Cardinale
Sara
Salim Kéchiouche
Bilal
Driss Ramdi
Lotfi Dziri
Video Trailer The String
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The string / Le Fil (2010) - Trailer English Subs - Trailer
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