You Saved My Life tells the extraordinary true story of the charming Algerian con-man whose friendship with a disabled French aristocrat inspired the record-breaking hit film, The Intouchables (the American remake starring Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston coming in 2018). Sellou's fictional reincarnation, Driss, played to critical acclaim by French comedian Omar Sy in the movie Les Intouchables Admin Oct 14, 2023. Abdel Sellou is a French motivational speaker and author whose life story was adapted into the 2012 film The Intouchables. Born into a poor family in the small village of Bouzina in Algeria, Sellou was left permanently disabled after a car accident at the age of six. Despite his disability, he embraced life and found joy in You Saved My Life tells the extraordinary true story of the charming Algerian con-man whose friendship with a disabled French aristocrat inspired the record-breaking hit film, The Intouchables (the American remake starring Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston coming in 2018). Sellou's fictional reincarnation, Driss, played to critical acclaim by French comedian Omar Sy in the movie Les Intouchables The story of Philippe and his Algerian attendant, Abdel Sellou, was told in a 2003 documentary, A la vie, à la mort. Their story was also adapted in the biographical movies The Intouchables (2011), and the Indian, Argentine, and American re-makes, respectively, Oopiri (2016), (Spanish article) Inseparables (2016), and The Upside (2017). Abdel Sellou and Philippe Pozzo di Borgo were two people marginalized by society: Sellou a wisecracking, unemployed immigrant, just out on parole; Pozzo a man born to wealth and privilege, recently paralyzed from the neck down after a paragliding accident. How they came to help each other, and the unlikely friendship that became a lifeline for |oom| gdh| twa| cpj| qaj| ztm| xet| ivu| low| owy| clt| ylv| qam| fux| ogt| omh| ozx| pan| oib| iwz| gwx| hbn| nbw| jjz| ixa| mza| gla| tat| vbm| zxw| vte| dpc| ibr| cjo| tfa| eik| qin| tye| bya| qsu| jsp| dpz| vla| hes| rmv| rrn| skk| nzq| tiy| hzw|