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Mourad Bounaas
Mourad Bounaas

Merwan

Nozha Khouadra
Nozha Khouadra

Malika

Djohra Bachene
Djorha Bachene

La mère de Merwan

Yahia Benmabrouk
Yahia Benmabrouk

Le taxi clandestin

Boualem Benani
Boualem Benani

Le capitaine

Pierre-Loup Rajot
Pierre-Loup Rajot

Ceccaldi

Aziz Anik
Aziz Anik

L'Officier de la PAF

Fawzi B. Saichi
Fawzi B. Saichi

Garçon du hammam

Mohamed Nacef
Mohamed Nacef

L'adjudant

Nadji Beida
Nadji Beida

Miloud

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    After a conviction for theft, Merwan was expelled from France, where he had lived since the age of one, to Algeria, his country of birth. In a foreign country of which he knows neither the language nor the customs, he finds himself stripped of his belongings and on the street.

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    1991-06-05

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