Nearly 30 years after 'La Haine' shocked audiences with its portrayal of police brutality and violence in France's suburbs, director Mathieu Kassovitz is reviving the story as a stage musical.
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00:00Musicals are made for families, musicals are romantic adventures and stories, so we are
00:25definitely into that line. But we have that twist that all good musicals have, that they are
00:31political. Hair is political, Starmania is political, West Side Story is political, so we're
00:38right in the middle of it. Two days after we announced the show, we were very hyped. Two days
00:44after, we had the video of Nael, you know, that kid who got shot by policemen. So we came back
00:54down on earth and we realized that, yes, we know why we're doing this. It's for him, it's for all
01:00the victims that suffered that kind of violence since so many years.
01:24Musicals are made for families, musicals are romantic adventures and stories, so we are definitely into that line.