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La Haine

Original title: La haine
  • 19951995
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 38m
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
171K
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Vincent Cassel in La Haine (1995)
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24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
171K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
2,639
1
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    • Director
      • Mathieu Kassovitz
    • Writer
      • Mathieu Kassovitz
    • Stars
      • Vincent Cassel
      • Hubert Koundé
      • Saïd Taghmaoui
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Mathieu Kassovitz
    • Writer
      • Mathieu Kassovitz
    • Stars
      • Vincent Cassel
      • Hubert Koundé
      • Saïd Taghmaoui
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 254User reviews
    • 91Critic reviews
    Top rated movie #237
    • Awards
      • 8 wins & 15 nominations

    Videos2

    Bande-annonce [OV]
    Trailer 3:34
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    La Haine: The Criterion Collection [Blu-Ray]
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    Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, and Saïd Taghmaoui in La Haine (1995)
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    Vincent Cassel
    Vincent Cassel
    • Vinz
    Hubert Koundé
    Hubert Koundé
    • Hubert
    Saïd Taghmaoui
    Saïd Taghmaoui
    • Saïd
    Abdel Ahmed Ghili
    • Abdel
    Solo
    • Santo
    Joseph Momo
    • Homme standard
    Héloïse Rauth
    • Sarah
    Rywka Wajsbrot
    • Grand-mère Vinz
    Olga Abrego
    • Tante Vinz
    Laurent Labasse
    • Cuisto
    Choukri Gabteni
    • Frère Saïd
    Nabil Ben Mhamed
    • Garçon blague
    Benoît Magimel
    Benoît Magimel
    • Benoît
    Médard Niang
    • Médard
    Arash Mansour
    • Arash
    Abdel-Moulah Boujdouni
    • Jeune business
    Mathilde Vitry
    • Journaliste
    Christian Moro
    • Journaliste TV CRS
    • Director
      • Mathieu Kassovitz
    • Writer
      • Mathieu Kassovitz
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Mathieu Kassovitz: Director briefly appears as the skinhead that Vinz intends to shoot.
    • Goofs
      The trip across Paris is strange: the three characters should arrive at the Saint-Lazare station (north-west of Paris), coming from Chanteloup Les Vignes. Yet, when they arrive, they are in front of the Montparnasse station (south of Paris), on the Rennes street. Then, they go to Asterix place, on the boulevard Pierre Ier of Serbia, close to Iena Place (west of Paris), and when they try to catch the last train, this time they are at the Saint-Lazare station, the right one to go back. But then, when they are on the roof, they see the Eiffel Tower and the Trocadero from the south-east, being probably close to Montparnasse station. Then, they come across a sculpture, L'Ecoute, in the Halles Garden (center of Paris), before going back. Hence, their trip goes: south, west, north-west, south and center of Paris.
    • Quotes

      Hubert: Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good... so far so good... so far so good. How you fall doesn't matter. It's how you land!

    • Crazy credits
      All the cast and crew credits are at the start of the film. The end credits only contain special thanks and the song credits.
    • Alternate versions
      In some English language subtitled (mainly American) versions the reference to the character of Said's friend who lives in the "posh towers" is 'Snoopy'. However, the untranslated dialogue says 'Asterix' and the woman who Vinz speaks to on the intercom laughs and says 'No, but his friend Obelix is here', whereas the translated version says 'No, but his friend Charlie Brown is.'. The reason Asterix and Obelix were changed to Snoopy and Charlie Brown in the subtitled version was because a lot of people are more familiar with those characters and possibly wouldn't understand the joke relating to Asterix and Obelix, which are two best friends in various French cartoon books by Goscinny & Uderzo.
    • Connections
      Featured in Three Kings (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      Burnin' and Lootin'
      Written by Bob Marley

      Performed by Bob Marley

      © 1973 by Caiman Music Inc.

      avec l'aimable autorisation des EMI Music Publishing France SA et de Polygram Projets Speciaux

    User reviews254

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    Top review
    Hate Begets Hate
    Reminiscent of Costas-Gavras' film Z with its rapid-fire dialogue and staccato rhythms, La Haine (Hate) directed by 28 year-old Mathieu Kassovitz, is a passionate look at racial tensions at a Paris housing project. Although drug dealing, urban decay, and police brutality have been shown in films before, rarely have they had the sense of vitality and urgency shown in La Haine.

    Three friends from different ethnic backgrounds live in the Bluebell housing projects on the outskirts of Paris. This is not the Paris of travel brochures or films like Amelie, but a desolate urban landscape, harsh and grim with housing projects that look as if they could be in any big city in the world. Vinz (Vincent Cassel), is a working class Jew; Hubert (Hubert Kounde), the most intelligent and self-reflective of the three, is an African boxer; and Said (Said Taghmaoui), an Arab from North Africa is younger but just as embittered.

    The film depicts their rage against the police whom they see as oppressors. Marginalized economically and politically, without jobs, parents who care, or hope for the future, the streets are their home and they are open targets for police who are shown as brutal and racist. In one startling scene, a veteran cop taunts and physically abuses Said and Hubert while training a rookie cop. The rookie can only look on and shake his head in disbelief.

    Shot in black and white, La Haine shows a single day in the lives of the three friends. Following a major riot in which a local teenager, Abdel, is critically wounded by the police, Vinz, the most volatile of the group, vows that if Abdel dies he will kill a cop to get even. Hubert wants to restrain him, and Said doesn't seem to care either way, as long as he can get his money from a drug dealer named Snoopy. When Vinz finds a Smith & Wesson 44 lost by the police during the riots, the spiral of violence escalates and builds toward a memorable conclusion.

    La Haine does not offer any solutions to social problems but clearly shows the anger and frustration of people who feel trapped by their circumstances. In its depiction of a society in free-fall, it also has immediacy. Three weeks after the film was released, riots broke out in the Brixton section of London, following the death of a young black man in police custody. Though it is a wake-up call for action on society's growing gap between rich and poor, La Haine makes a powerful statement that violence does not solve anything and that hate begets hate. Someone should pass the word to a few of the world leaders.
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    • Aug 26, 2002

    Details

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    • Release date
      • February 23, 1996 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Le Pacte (France)
      • Les Productions Lazennec (France)
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Hate
    • Filming locations
      • Chanteloup-les-Vignes, Yvelines, France
    • Production companies
      • Les Productions Lazennec
      • Le Studio Canal+
      • La Sept Cinéma
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • €2,590,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $280,859
    • Gross worldwide
      • $412,914
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 38 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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