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:
31 July 1991
Oakland, California is the murder capital of the USA - there were 161 homicides in 1990 in a city the size of Cardiff.
01 May 1991
A suspense drama based on Osamu Takahashi's original work starring Shinobu Otake. The shooting location of Gunkanjima is a famous tourist attraction.
01 January 1991
Documentary telling the history of Cinecittà, and how it contributed to Italian cinema development.
01 January 1991
The film begins on, two soulmates Seetapathi (Subbaraya Sarma) & Major Pratapa Rao (Abhishith Varma) fixing up their children, Sivudu (Rajendra Prasad) & Parvati's (Amurtha) alliance in their childhood.
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.
01 January 1991
Looks at the United States as it becomes an increasingly diverse nation. Tracing the history of significant changes in the Immigration and Nationality Act beginning in 1965, this program introduces a dramatic vision of a multi-cultural America where people of color are the new majority.
10 April 1991
The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—does just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids.
26 August 1991
Sixty year old Max is having something of a middle-age crisis. His marriage seems to go nowhere as the passion, tenderness and happiness vanished when their daughter moved out.
12 April 1991
In the sequel to 1990's classic Neo Chinpira, Junko (Sho Aikawa) attempts to take out Kazama and then goes on the run.
18 December 1991
During World War I, African-Americans worked on the railroad near Corbin, Kentucky. When whites returned from the war, there was conflict.
15 November 1991
David is sitting in a bar, musing over why he has bedded and left five or six of Asia's loveliest women in such a short time.
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