Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain and Tahar Rahim, Un Prophète

Acclaimed filmmaker Jacques Audiard (The Beat That My Heart
Skipped) wanted to do something different for his fifth film, so he teamed with screenwriter Thomas Bidegain to write a prison movie inspired by America's classic gangster films. The result is the epic Un Prophète, which was the runner-up prize winner at last May's Cannes film festival and received a 2010 Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. During the bustle of the Regency Hotel's daily "power breakfast," Stephen Schaefer spoke with Audiard, Bidegain and the young Tahar Rahim, who plays the titular character whose sentence transforms him from an ignorant youth to a mob boss (23 minutes).

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