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Mektoub

Mektoub

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 23, 1970

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Drama

User Score

100%

Original Title

Mektoub

Production Companies

Comptoir Français du Film Production (CFFP)

Director

Ali Ghalem

Description

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.