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Salut cousin ! (1996)
Directed by Merzak Allouache
Comedy · 1h 38m
The comedy in this lively film barely conceals its darker, more serious undertones as it chronicles a young Algerian's eye-opening introduction to the joys and travails of being an immigrant in Paris. Alilo has left his home to pick up an important suitcase for his employer. Unfortunately, he has lost the Parisian address. Fortunately, his cousin Mok, emigrated there several years before with his middle-class family before and is able to act as a guide. Mok, an aspiring rap singer, comes from a middle-class family, but chooses to live on his own in the dilapidated deteriorating 18th district, known as 'Moskova.' Mok characterizes the place as a haven for artists and intellectuals, but it is plainly just a Third World slum filled with tightly knit and colorful neighbors. Mok and Alilo have many interesting, some tragedy-tinged adventures over the five days it takes them to find the suitcase.
Cast
Gad Elmaleh
Massoud Hattou
Magaly Berdy
Ann-Gisel Glass
Jean Benguigui
Xavier Maly
Mostefa Djadjam
Guy Amram
Jo Prestia
Malek Kateb
Arno Chevrier
Crew
- Director
- Merzak Allouache
- Writer
- Caroline Thivel, Merzak Allouache
- Director of Photography
- Pierre Aïm
- Editor
- Denise de Casabianca
- Producer
- Jacques Bidou
Details
- Release date
- 1996-11-15
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, French
- Countries
- France, Algeria, Belgium, Luxembourg
- Production
- JBA Production, RTBF, Flash Back Audiovisuel, La Sept Cinéma, Artémis Productions, Samsa Film, Cléa Productions