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.

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Cast

Sid Ali Kouiret

Salah

Tahar Kebaili

Mehdi

Mohamed Hamam

Ahmed

Med Hondo

Med

Jacques Rispal

M. Pierre, le concierge

Marcel Cuvelier

Pierre

Pierre Forget

Cecelle

Françoise Thuries

L'institutrice

Okacha Touita

Catherine Rivet

Catherine

François Dyrek

Paul

Marie-Pierre Casey

L'assistante sociale