Take Your Ten Thousand Francs and Get Out (1981)

9.7/10 • 90 min • Comedy

Overview

Two young Algerians born in France leave the Paris region to return with their parents to the village of their origins. They speak neither Arabic nor Berber. First barrier which isolates them from their new environment and which is further accentuated by the problem of generations, present here as in France. The social position of Algerian women posed to young emigrants is more immediately felt and proves to be a generator of conflict. Thanks to the plot, it is the whole problem of the reintegration of emigrants in their land of origin that the film poses and illustrates.

Cast

Yves Neff

Mus

Fatiha Fawzi

Fifi

Mostéfa Stiti

Lounès, le père

Hubert Deschamps

Si Kaddour

Mustapha El Anka

Si Tayeb

Kader Kada

Bachir

Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane

Mokrane

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