"The Mauritanian" explores the trial about Gitmo trial of an accused terrorist.
The first thing I did after watching “The Mauritanian” was head to my desktop Globe to locate the exact location in Africa of Mauritania, a country of which I’d never heard. Answer: Northwest coast, just below Western Sahara, just above Senegal. It's there that this riveting and discomfiting film begins, in November, 2001 – a couple of months after 9/11. That’s when Mohamedou Slahi (Tahar Rahim) is visited by local police at a family party, is forced to leave with them and, before anything is explained, finds himself relocated to his new home: a cramped single cell in Cuba’s Guant...
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