Investigating Paradise

(2018)

★ 6.2 IMDb · 3 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2018

Runtime: 135 мин

Country: France, Algeria

Director: Merzak Allouache

Cast: Salima Abada, Younès Sabeur Chérif, Aida Guechoud

Plot

Young Algerian journalist Nedjma is investigating Islamic accounts of paradise. She is particularly interested in the descriptions used by Salafi preachers to recruit young Algerian men as jihadists. She and her colleague Mustapha find a number of disturbing, richly embellished video sermons and decide to explore the phenomenon in more detail.