MONSIEUR IBRAHIM aka MONSIEUR
IBRAHIM ET LES FLEURS DU CORAN

Year: 2003
USA: Sony Pictures Classics
Cast: Omar Sharif, Pierre Boulanger, Gilbert Melki, Isabelle Renauld, Lola Naymark, Anne Suarez, Mata Gabin, Celine Samie, Isabelle Adjani, Guillaume Gallienne, Guillaume Rannou, Manuel Lelievre, Daniel Znyk, Françoise Armelle, Sylvie Herbert, Claude Merlin, Pascal Vincent, Tessa Volkine, Marie-Sophie Ahmadi, Maryse Deol, Gerard BOle du Chaumont, François Toumarkine, Sylvie Debrun, Jeremy Sitbon, Eric Caravaca
Director: François Dupeyron
Country: France
Language: French (English subtitles)
USA: 95 mins
USA Rated: R for some sexual content
USA Release Date: 13 February 2004 (Limited Release - Los Angeles and New York)


Synopsis

During the early 1960's, Paris, like the much of Europe, was an explosion of life. Against this background, in a working class neighborhood, two unlikely characters - a young Jew and an elderly Muslim - begin a friendship.

Momo (Pierre Boulanger), is virtually an orphan even though he lives with his father, a man slowly descending into a crippling depression. His only friends are the street whores. However Momo buys his groceries at the neighborhood shop owned by Ibrahim (Omar Sharif).

After Momo is abandoned by his father, Ibrahim becomes the one adult in Momo's life. Together they begin a journey that will change their lives forever...