Michou d'Auber

Michou d'Auber (2007)

DramaThriller

Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the factory, can't look after him, so decides to put him and his older brother Abdel in foster care. Sent to the countryside, Abdel has to work on a farm, but Messaoud is taken in by a childless woman, who conceals his Arab origins from her fiercely Gaullist ex-army husband. Re-named Michel/Michou, and with his hair comically dyed blond, the young boy quickly steals the hearts of both foster-parents, and eventually is instrumental in saving their troubled marriage.

Director: Thomas Gilou

Casts

	Gérard Depardieu as Georges
	Nathalie Baye as Gisèle
	Mathieu Amalric as Jacques
	Samy Seghir as Messaoud / Michou
	Catherine Hiegel as la directrice de l'orphelinat
	Philippe Nahon as le cafetier
	Bernard Yerlès as le copain de Georges
	Gérald Laroche as Robert
	Chick Ortega as Viguier
	Mohamed Fellag as Akli
	Christian Bouillette as Le maire
	Abdelhafid Metalsi as Saïd
	Marie Kremer as Vendeuse papeterie
	Gilles Détroit as Le curé
	Ludovic Berthillot as Max
	Medi Kerouani as Abdel
	Robert Plagnol as Duval

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