Road to Kabul (2012)

In Casablanca, Ali, Hmida, Mbarek and Messoud are four unemployed youths who spend their time dreaming of a better life in the Netherlands. One day, Hmida falls on a specialist of illegal immigration, Ouchen. The four friends manage to collect enough money only for the departure of one of them, Hmida. Several months later, it still has not given any sign of life. Ali, Mbarek and Messoud discovering that he is not in Holland but in Afghanistan, they decide to go looking for him on the road to Kabul.

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Top billed cast

Rabie KatiMasoud
Younes BouabAli
Aziz DadasOuchen
Amine EnnajiMbarek
Said BeyAli Chah Benkadour
Fatima BouchaneFattouma
Kalila BounaylatFille d'un trafiquant d'opium
Rafik BoubkerHmida
Colin GoodwinUS Officer
Alexandre OttoveggioKurk

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