Monsieur Ibrahim
Monsieur Ibrahim (original title: Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran; (, Mister Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Qur'an) is a 2003 French drama film starring Omar Sharif, and directed by François Dupeyron. The film is based on a book by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt.
Plot
The story unfolds in a working-class neighborhood in the Paris of the 1960s. The protagonist, Moїse Schmidt (Momo), is a young Jewish boy growing up without a mother and with a father afflicted by crippling depression. Momo is fascinated by the elderly Turkish Muslim man, Ibrahim Demirci, who runs a grocery store across the street from his apartment (where Momo often shoplifts). Their relationship develops and soon Momo feels closer to Ibrahim than to his father. Ibrahim affectionately calls Moїse Momo, and adopts him when his father leaves and commits suicide. Momo and Ibrahim go on a journey in their new car to Turkey, Ibrahim's native country, where Momo learns about Ibrahim's culture. At the end of their adventure, Ibrahim is killed in a car crash and Momo returns to Paris to take over the shop.
More details
| author | Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt François Dupeyron |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Anatolia Istanbul Paris |
| director | François Dupeyron |
| editor | Dominique Faysse |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | adopt car crash clinical depression depression end grocery store grow up jew jewish boy kill muslim new car suicide turkey turkish turkish people |
| musicBy | Dov Seltzer |
| producer | Laurent Petin Michele Petin |
| publisher | ARP Sélection |
| recordedAt | rue des Degrés |
| theme | race and ethnicity |