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Alain-Michel Blanc has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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In 1980, the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
Dir. Radu Mihăileanu · With Moshe Abebe, Moshe Agazai, Sirak M. Sabahat
A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once directed. One day, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet. Through a series of mad antics, he reunites his old orchestra, now composed of old alcoholic musicians, and flies to perform in Paris and complete the Tchaikovsky concerto interrupted 30 years earlier. For the concerto, he engages a young violin soloist with whom he has an unexpected connection.
Dir. Radu Mihăileanu · With Aleksey Guskov, Mélanie Laurent, Dmitri Nazarov
A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.
Dir. Radu Mihăileanu · With Leïla Bekhti, Hafsia Herzi, Biyouna

An Algerian man's life-long dream finally comes true when he receives an invitation to take his cow Jacqueline to the Paris International Agriculture Fair.
Dir. Mohamed Hamidi · With Fatsah Bouyahmed, Lambert Wilson, Jamel Debbouze
After its football team is disqualified for insulting a referee during a major game, a small country town risks losing its funding along with its field. To avoid this disaster, there is only one solution: creating a new team made up exclusively of women to defend the city’s colors! But in a community where football has always been an activity reserved for men, these women’s new status will be sure to shake up the daily lives of the town’s residents…
Dir. Mohamed Hamidi · With Kad Merad, Alban Ivanov, Céline Sallette
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