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Mektoub (1970)

Mektoub (1970)

Drama
Release Date: 1970, September 23
Directors: Ali Ghalem
Countries: France
Production: Comptoir Français du Film Production, Comptoir Français du Film Production
Cast: Álvaro Marenco, Abderrahmane El Kebir, Pierre Mirat

Overview:

Ahmed, an Algerian laborer and young father, leaves his country and arrives in France, hoping to find a job through Salah, a friend who has been living in the Paris suburbs for several years. He is disappointed when he arrives in Nanterre, where Salah lives in a shantytown. Without any support, Ahmed has to make the daily rounds of the employment offices, like so many other immigrants who, like him, have been lulled into complacency.

Keywords:

racism france immigration algeria union struggle bidonvilles proletariat