Dolls and Angels

Dolls and Angels

2008•1h 42m•6.4/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.4/10(34)

The father of a family of North African immigrants living on a Paris housing estate finds it hard to impose his will on his two teenage daughters. Lya, 17, and Chirine, 18, respond to their father’s bouts of violence by rebelling in the same way as most French adolescents. When Chirine is offered work as a model, she jumps at the chance, but soon realizes she may be about to fall into the prostitution racket...

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Production

France 2 Cinéma, Flach Film

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Leïla Bekhti

Leïla Bekhti

Lya

Karina Testa

Karina Testa

Chirine

Samy Naceri

Samy Naceri

Le père

Samuel Le Bihan

Samuel Le Bihan

Simon

Fejria Deliba

Fejria Deliba

La mère

Léa Seydoux

Léa Seydoux

Gisèle

Gianni Giardinelli

Gianni Giardinelli

Alex

Aurelia Crebessegues

Aurelia Crebessegues

Angel

Théo Frilet

Théo Frilet

Mikaël

Alice Mesnil

Marie

Nina Mélo

Nina Mélo

Vanessa

Dalla Serradj

Inès

Jean-Louis Tribes

Jean-Louis Tribes

M. Picaux

Yves Espargilière

Le maître dea lieux

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