RABIA

By Mareike ENGELHARDT

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Thriller - Completed 2024

Multiple César winners and super on the rise producers Films
Grand Huit introduce one of Europe’s strongest voices with Rabia,
the electrifying directorial debut of Mareike Engelhardt. As much a
claustrophobic thriller as a gripping tale of survival, this never-seen
before, provocative look on life

    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Thriller, Drama
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, GERMANY, BELGIUM
    • Languages
    • FRENCH, ARABIC, ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 94 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Mareike ENGELHARDT
    • Producer(s)
    • Lionel MASSOL (Films Grand Huit), Pauline SEIGLAND (Films Grand Huit), Wasiliki BLESER (Starhaus Films), Annabella NEZRI (Kwassa Films)
    • Synopsis
    • A 19-year-old French woman travels to a country at war and finds herself trapped in a
      house full of women with a number of other young arrivals from all corners of the globe. In order
      to survive, she becomes an assistant to the director, Madame, who exerts a powerful fascination
      over Rabia. Their master-slave relationship drives Rabia to go beyond the limits of her convictions,
      until she can no longer bear the monster the system is turning her into…