After a conviction for theft, Merwan was expelled from France, where he had lived since the age of one, to Algeria, his country of birth. In a foreign country of which he knows neither the language nor the customs, he finds himself stripped of his belongings and on the street.
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Mourad Bounaas as Merwan
Nozha Khouadra as Malika
Djohra Bachene as La mère de Merwan
Yahia Benmabrouk as Le taxi clandestin
Boualem Benani as Le capitaine
Pierre-Loup Rajot as Ceccaldi
Aziz Anik as L'Officier de la PAF
Fawzi B. Saichi as Garçon du hammam
Mohamed Nacef as L'adjudant
Nadji Beida as Miloud
Houari Bellamou as Ali
Cheik Doukouré as Le chauffeur malien
Thameur as L'oncle de Malika
Abdelkader Djalti as Le père de Merwan
Abdelhamid Rebaini as Le père de Malika
Christian Zerbib Screenplay
Youcef Sahraoui Director of Photography
Rachid Bouchareb Screenplay
Abdelkrim Bahloul Screenplay
Rachid Bouchareb Director
Safy Boutella Original Music Composer
Jean Bréhat Producer
Rachid Bouchareb Producer
Guy Lecorne Editor
France 05 June 1991
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1991:
03 July 1991
Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000.
13 December 1991
Somewhere in Los Angeles, the city of broken dreams, a stripper is murdered. Now, the private detective she had hired and her ex-footballer boyfriend are going to find her murderer.
13 November 1991
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist.
01 January 1991
Featuring Arnold and Ahneva from Wendy Clarke's One on One video series, this video dialogue deeply connects the pair through discussion of Black brother and sisterhood.
25 January 1991
Claude, a militant anarchist, is caught stealing and is shot by a policeman while fleeing the scene. Dodo, a hairdresser, is hit by one of the stray bullets.
25 May 1991
An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and moral questions.
01 December 1991
A man begins suspecting that his best friend may be involved in an international crime ring.
27 September 1991
In the late 1950s, British police officer Tony Aaron resigns from the force after sleeping with Hazel, wife of the man whose house he was supposed to guard.
01 October 1991
In a slightly future America, a woman goes to the big city to visit with her sister, who is dead in her apartment.
27 June 1991
A snake god, prisoner in a cave since thousand years, takes possession of a man and transforms his arm in a snake.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1991 3B Productions, Centre Régional des Ressources Audiovisuelles (CRRAV), Artédis.