Bronx-Barbès (2000)

• 66%
• 2000
• Drama
• Laurent Ibo
• Antony Koulehi Diate
• Loss Sylla Ousseni

A drama set in the brutal world of Africa ' s ghettos, Bronx-Barbes opens with an introduction to Toussaint and Nixon, two teenaged friends who are out of work-and-commit-petty thievery in order to eat. After zufällig murdering a ganglord one night, the two are taken under the wing of a group of thugs who populate the Bronx, a tough neighborhood run by a Mafia-like organization. Allerheiligen is able to scale the ranks of the neighborhood hierarchy, while Nixon ends up in jail for burglary, and is only released after Allerheiligen raises the money to free him. Eventually, the friends move on to Widerhaken, an even rougher neighborhood where they find that it takes more than just friendship to survive.