The Ambassadors (1975)
“Each of you is an ambassador, and we are sure that each of you will be the best ambassador of our country.” This is how the film begins; a speech to emigrant workers for France. Salah left his three sisters and his mother to become an ambassador, going to work on a Defense site, wading in the mud, he works with a jackhammer. Salah wanders in search of work and housing. Coming up against racism from the owners claiming the respectability of the building and the good neighborhood, he finds himself in a hotel in the Goutte d'Or district. The body of Mehdi, friend of Salah, was found in the Canal Saint-Martin, murdered by a fascist commando, and Ali died of a bullet, killed by a racist janitor. Faced with crimes that remain unpunished, Salah and his friends organize, unite with the French working class to defend their lives and their right to work.
Director: Naceur Ktari
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Sid Ali Kouiret as Salah |
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Tahar Kebaili as Mehdi |
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Mohamed Hamam as Ahmed |
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Faouzi Kasri as Ali |
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Med Hondo as Med |
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Jacques Rispal as M. Pierre, le concierge |
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Marcel Cuvelier as Pierre |
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Pierre Forget as Cecelle |
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Françoise Thuries as L'institutrice |
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Okacha Touita as |
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Catherine Rivet as Catherine |
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François Dyrek as Paul |
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Marie-Pierre Casey as L'assistante sociale |
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Dominique Lacarrière as Zohra |
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Dynn Yaad as Kamel |
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Didane Oumer as Hedi |
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Khemaïs Khayati as |
| Directing | Naceur Ktari | Director |
| Editing | François Ceppi | Editor |
| Editing | Arbi Ben Ali | Editor |
| Sound | Hamadi Ben Othman | Music |
| Camera | Jean-Jacques Rochut | Director of Photography |
| Art | Denis-Martin Sisteron | Set Designer |
| Sound | Antoine Bonfanti | Sound |
| Sound | Auguste Galli | Sound |
| Sound | Hachim Joulak | Sound |
| Writing | Lise Bouzidi | Writer |
| Writing | Christine Jancovici | Writer |
| Writing | Ahmed Kassem | Writer |
| Writing | Naceur Ktari | Writer |
| Writing | Gérard Gauger | Writer |
