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COOL ABDOUL

By Jonas BAEKELAND

DUTCH FILMWORKS BV - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, NETHERLANDS

Biography - Completed 2021

Ismail Abdoul is a talented young boxer on the rise, ready to make it to the top. He's found the love of his life, Sylvie, and is making a decent living as a bouncer. But when the opportunity for more money and power arises, he seizes it.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2021

Industry Selects 2021

Gent IFF 2021

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Biography, Drama, Action/Adventure
- Countries
- BELGIUM
- Languages
- FLEMISH, FRENCH, ARABIC
- Duration
- 112 mn
- Director(s)
- Jonas BAEKELAND
- Writer(s)
- Jonas BAEKELAND, Fikry EL AZZOUZI, Wouter VAN HAVER
- Cast
- Nabil MALLAT, Johan HELDENBERGH, Anemone VALCKE, Dimitri VEGAS
- Producer(s)
- Lize LEFAIBLE (POTEMKINO), Peter DE MAEGD (POTEMKINO), Els VANDEVORST, Diana ELBAUM, Anne BERGER
- Synopsis
- Ismail Abdoul is a talented young boxer on the rise, ready to make it to the top. He's found the love of his life, Sylvie, and is making a decent living as a bouncer. But when the opportunity for more money and power arises, he seizes it. In no time, he and his men control all the club doors in the city, including the drug traffic behind them. Abdoul becomes a living legend, both in the ring and out of it. Blinded by success, he gets caught in a web of his own lies and vio.lent actions and will be forced to fight the ultimate match: against himself.

COOL ABDOUL

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