

02/01/1975
“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.

Sid Ali Kouiret
as Salah

Tahar Kebaili
as Mehdi

Mohamed Hamam
as Ahmed

Faouzi Kasri
as Ali

Med Hondo
as Med

Jacques Rispal
as M. Pierre, le concierge

Marcel Cuvelier
as Pierre

Pierre Forget
as Cecelle

Françoise Thuries
as L'institutrice

Okacha Touita
as

Catherine Rivet
as Catherine

François Dyrek
as Paul

Marie-Pierre Casey
as L'assistante sociale

Dominique Lacarrière
as Zohra

Dynn Yaad
as Kamel

Didane Oumer
as Hedi

Khemaïs Khayati
as
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