Take Your Ten Thousand Francs and Get Out (1981)
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.
Director: Mahmoud Zemmouri
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Yves Neff as Mus |
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Fatiha Fawzi as Fifi |
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Mostéfa Stiti as Lounès, le père |
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Hubert Deschamps as Si Kaddour |
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Mustapha El Anka as Si Tayeb |
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Kader Kada as Bachir |
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El Hadja as Aïcha, la grand-mère |
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Annie Rousset as Djouher, la mère |
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Mazouz Ould-Abderrahmane as Mokrane |
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Sir Lechea as |
| Writing | Mahmoud Zemmouri | Writer |
| Sound | Djamel Allam | Music |
| Editing | Youcef Tobni | Editor |
| Camera | Jean-Jacques Mréjen | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Alain Weill | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Mahmoud Zemmouri | Director |