Salut cousin !

Salut cousin ! (1996)

Comedy

The comedy in this lively film barely conceals its darker, more serious undertones as it chronicles a young Algerian's eye-opening introduction to the joys and travails of being an immigrant in Paris. Alilo has left his home to pick up an important suitcase for his employer. Unfortunately, he has lost the Parisian address. Fortunately, his cousin Mok, emigrated there several years before with his middle-class family before and is able to act as a guide. Mok, an aspiring rap singer, comes from a middle-class family, but chooses to live on his own in the dilapidated deteriorating 18th district, known as 'Moskova.' Mok characterizes the place as a haven for artists and intellectuals, but it is plainly just a Third World slum filled with tightly knit and colorful neighbors. Mok and Alilo have many interesting, some tragedy-tinged adventures over the five days it takes them to find the suitcase.

Director: Merzak Allouache

Casts

	Gad Elmaleh as Alilo
	Massoud Hattou as Mok
	Magaly Berdy as Fatoumata
	Ann-Gisel Glass as Laurence
	Jean Benguigui as Maurice
	Xavier Maly as Claude
	Cheik Doukouré as Le voisin
	Mostefa Djadjam as
	Guy Amram as
	Jo Prestia as
	Malek Kateb as
	Arno Chevrier as
	Mohamed Ourdache as
	Dalila Renault as

Crew