Take Your Ten Thousand Francs and Get Out

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Take Your Ten Thousand Francs and Get Out (1981)

Directed by Mahmoud Zemmouri

Comedy · 1h 30m

In 1980, Lionel Stoléru—France’s Secretary of State for Migrant Workers—introduced a "repatriation grant" of 10,000 francs (known as the "Stoléru million"), paid to immigrants who agreed to return permanently to their countries of origin. One Algerian family decided to leave France. Upon arriving in the small rural town of Boufarik, Algeria, in a brand-new Peugeot 404, they caused a scandal. Their liberated ways drew the villagers' ire, and the two children knew nothing about Algeria or local customs. The film was selected for the Cannes Film Festival in 1981, and in 1982, it won the Critics' Prize at the Chamrousse International Comedy Film Festival.

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Cast

Yves Neff Mus Fatiha Fawzi Fifi Mostéfa Stiti Lounès, le père Hubert Deschamps Si Kaddour Mustapha El Anka Si Tayeb Kader Kada Bachir
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El Hadja Aïcha, la grand-mère
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Annie Rousset Djouher, la mère Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane Mokrane
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Sir Lechea

Crew

Director
Mahmoud Zemmouri
Writer
Mahmoud Zemmouri
Director of Photography
Alain Weill
Editor
Youcef Tobni

Details

Original title
Prends 10000 Balles Et Casse-Toi
Release date
1981-01-02
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Comedy
Original language
FR
Spoken languages
French, Arabic
Countries
Algeria
Production
Fennec Productions