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Ma 6-T va crack-er

  • 1997
  • 1h 45m
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
879
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Ma 6-T va crack-er (1997)
CrimeDrama

Young people and their chances of creating a loving life.Young people and their chances of creating a loving life.Young people and their chances of creating a loving life.

  • Director
    • Jean-François Richet
  • Writers
    • Jean-François Richet
    • Arco Descat C.
  • Stars
    • Arco Descat C.
    • Jean-Marie Robert
    • Malik Zeggou
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.7/10
    879
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Jean-François Richet
    • Writers
      • Jean-François Richet
      • Arco Descat C.
    • Stars
      • Arco Descat C.
      • Jean-Marie Robert
      • Malik Zeggou
    • 7User reviews
    • 1Critic review
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Arco Descat C.
    • Arco
    Jean-Marie Robert
    • J.M.
    Malik Zeggou
    • Malik
    Mustapha Ziad
    • Mustapha
    Karim Rezeg
    Hamouda Bouras
    • Hamouda
    Peterasta
    • Pete
    Rodrigue Alberto
    Jean-François Richet
    Jean-François Richet
    • Djeff
    Virginie Ledoyen
    Virginie Ledoyen
    • La fille au pistolet
    Gilles Carballo
    • Le pion
    Joanna Pavlis
    • Prof d'anglais
    Brigitte Sy
    Brigitte Sy
    • Le proviseur
    Emile Abossolo M'bo
    Emile Abossolo M'bo
    • Le prof de gym
    Dominique Descat
    • La cité
    Marion Descat
    • La cité
    Sarah Demazy
    • La cité
    Yannick Lee Trebalag
    • La cité
    • Director
      • Jean-François Richet
    • Writers
      • Jean-François Richet
      • Arco Descat C.
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    10grocoman

    A genuine communist revolutionary movie that promotes revolutionary violence

    Ma 6-T va crack-er is one of a rare breed: a genuinely rebellious movie. But also a movie with a strong political perspective: the perspective of true marxist-leninist communism, the idea that we have to build a revolutionary communist party and that - although the working class strikes remain the center of the revolutionary process - spontaneous violent resistance from the poor suburbs (the "banlieue" around Paris and other large French cities, with a great majority of immigrants) will be an important part of the revolutionary process. This movie also makes a strong point about violence between proles: it says that poverty makes you direct your violence against ill-chosen targets (rival gangs, ...), but that one spark can set the plain on fire, that one "incident" (the cops killing one youth, for example) can redirect the just violence against the true enemies: the state, the bourgeoisie, the cops.
    c13nrv

    too political

    exactly , that was the mistake of Jean Francois Richet, he tryed to mix hiphop and political convictions, the idea is smart, but youth in france are not followers... they tryed to make hiphop artist represent their propaganda to influence youth,,, but you also have to know that Jean francois Richet first movie was already a rebellious and destructive movie about ghettos in France...

    its interesting to see this movie, but its is a point of view of whats happening in France, not what is really happening,,,

    a movie like " THE HATE " from Matthieu Kassovitz , is way more realistic on this subject.
    searchanddestroy-1

    Powerful social drama

    It is not a thriller nor a crime film, but a social, brutal, gritty but also a bit ankward social drama in the line of LA HAINE, or RAÏ, made two years earlier. But there is a thing that I can't realize, I can not believe, is that no one - even in France, on french movie blogs - no one has noticed that the previous Jean-François Richet's film: L'ETAT DES LIEUX, made two or three years earlier, was also a suburb violent social depiction. L'ETAT DES LIEUX was somewhere the prequel, the draft, of this one. Played in both cases, for both films, by mostly non professional actors - as also was LES MISERABLES - made twenty years later, those two features are mainly destined to suburb, ghetto audiences for whom it was a huge success, as also was SCARFACE, one decade earlier.
    8beautiful_loser

    a film showing and encouraging violence and revolt

    I wonder what people find so wrong about this film for giving it a 5.4 -I give it a 8 . I find this film superior to LA HAINE , because it don't just show the thirst for revolution of the youth , its analysing it and shows why a certain system dont work and have to be changed . Its not one of those movies that pretends to show a fair and realistic view on delinquency just by showing nothing or in an artificial way , those film who preravicate what's really the truth, like all those American almost ridiculous films like DANGEROUS MINDS. The good films about the culture of the youth of today , violence , anarchy , are MA 6-T VA CRAC-KER ( CRACK C-T ) ,and others like DE BRUIT ET DE FUREUR . Its not the conventional filmmaking, there's clips, long shooting and riots sequences and its filmed in an almost documentary and innate approach , Richet directed his film freely , with no big spending, he said to the non-professional actors to just act and talk in a natural style, like everyday , as though there wasn't any camera. A good film who show the youth abject to the capitalism and want some radical change. A film showing violence by showing violence , not really denouncing it but encouraging it.
    1hbbio

    A leftist propaganda movie

    This movie has its artistic qualities. But, it is not definitely its purpose. Richet is an extremist obsessed by revolution. He tried to make a film inviting young viewers in "banlieues" to put everything on fire. For instance, cops are constantly portrayed as racist and violent, and are called enemies from beginning till end. The script tries to explain how their revolt is justified, and that true violence is the only way to escape their problems. The climax is the end: after a cop coldly kills a teenager, all his friends start to break public phones, burn cars, until a whole police unit come for the "final fight". So you might watch it to see how far violence goes, but it is dangerous to see for the minds it was made for. Richet could be sued for hate incitement.

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    • Trivia
      The director Jean-François Richet made, two years earlier, another ghetto, suburb revolt film, which atmosphere and plot were close to this one: L'Etat Des Lieux. Some kind of a draft for Ma Ct Va Crack-er.
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      Featured in Cold Showers (2005)
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    • Release date
      • July 2, 1997 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Crack 6-T
    • Production companies
      • Actes Proletariens
      • Canal+
      • TF1 International
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      • FRF 7,000,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 45m(105 min)
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