Return to Algiers

Return to Algiers (2000)

Drama

Famous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That's been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was formerly an Algerian pied noir. An Algerian delivers an urgent message to Pierre from a Leïla Jalal... Algiers, 1962. The Nivels live in the same apartment building as the Moslem Jalal family. Lycée student Pierre is in love with their daughter, Leïla. The civil unrest in Algeria is heating up and violence is spreading in Algiers. At school, Pierre is friends with a Moslem student, Issam, but he is made fun of for that... Pierre's jet arrives in Algiers. As a celebrity, Pierre is met on arrival by a government official, Nader Mansour. Because of the civil war raging between the government and Islamic terrorists, they drive into the city in a heavily armed convoy. Pierre does not tell Mansour his real reason for returning: Leïla has asked him to help her daughter Amina escape to safety in France.

Director: Alexandre Arcady

Casts

	Antoine de Caunes as Pierre Nivel
	Samy Naceri as Issam
	Mathilda May as Nelly Azera
	Nozha Khouadra as Leila/Amina
	Pierre Vaneck as Blanville
	Lorànt Deutsch as Versanti
	Wadeck Stanczak as Francis
	Elsa Zylberstein as Pierre Nivel's wife
	Matthias Van Khache as Étienne
	Dora Doll as Paula Azera
	Mostéfa Stiti as Fadel
	Abderrahmane El Kebir as Fadel's brother
	Jean-Claude de Goros as Henri Nivel, Pierre Nivel's father
	Françoise Armelle-Chiche as Henri Nivel, Pierre Nivel's mother
	Marie Guillard as Alexandra
	François-Xavier Noah as Pierre Nivel, young
	Raphaël Lenglet as Issam, young
	Saïd Amadis as Nader Mansour
	Daniel Saint-Hamont as Narrator
	Nadia Samir as

Crew