Mektoub
Top 5 Billed Cast
Ahmed
Site manager
Salah
Rouge
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Overview
Ahmed, an Algerian laborer and young father, leaves his country and arrives in France, hoping to find a job through Salah, a friend who has been living in the Paris suburbs for several years. He is disappointed when he arrives in Nanterre, where Salah lives in a shantytown. Without any support, Ahmed has to make the daily rounds of the employment offices, like so many other immigrants who, like him, have been lulled into complacency.
Release Date
1970-09-23
Average
10
Rating:
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