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The Ambassadors (1975)
Directed by Naceur Ktari
Drama · 1h 42m
“Each of you is an ambassador, and we are sure that each of you will be the best ambassador of our country.” This is how the film begins; a speech to emigrant workers for France. Salah left his three sisters and his mother to become an ambassador, going to work on a Defense site, wading in the mud, he works with a jackhammer. Salah wanders in search of work and housing. Coming up against racism from the owners claiming the respectability of the building and the good neighborhood, he finds himself in a hotel in the Goutte d'Or district. The body of Mehdi, friend of Salah, was found in the Canal Saint-Martin, murdered by a fascist commando, and Ali died of a bullet, killed by a racist janitor. Faced with crimes that remain unpunished, Salah and his friends organize, unite with the French working class to defend their lives and their right to work.
Cast
Sid Ali Kouiret
Tahar Kebaili
Mohamed Hamam
Med Hondo
Jacques Rispal
Marcel Cuvelier
Pierre Forget
Françoise Thuries
Okacha Touita
Catherine Rivet
François Dyrek
Crew
- Director
- Naceur Ktari
- Writer
- Christine Jancovici, Lise Bouzidi, Ahmed Kassem, Gérard Gauger, Naceur Ktari
- Director of Photography
- Jean-Jacques Rochut
- Editor
- François Ceppi, Arbi Ben Ali
Details
- Original title
- Les Ambassadeurs
- Release date
- 1975-01-02
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, French
- Countries
- France, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Tunisia
- Production
- Unité Trois, SATPEC, OGEK