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The Ambassadors (1975)

The Ambassadors (1975)

Drama
Release Date: 1975, January 2
Directors: Naceur Ktari
Countries: France, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Tunisia
Production: Unité Trois, SATPEC, OGEK
Cast: Pierre Forget, Jacques Rispal, Dominique Lacarrière, Catherine Rivet, Marie-Pierre Casey, Marcel Cuvelier, François Dyrek, Sid Ali Kouiret, Françoise Thuries, Tahar Kebaili, Mohamed Hamam, Faouzi Kasri

Overview:

“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.

Keywords:

racism algeria migrant worker maghreb immigration poor workers maghreb disapora maroc algérie tunisie