CinemaOSMovie · 1976 · 1h 12m

Nationality: Immigrant

80%(1)IMDbDramaDocumentary

A Mauritanian worker, Sidi, works in France. Like most immigrant workers, he is employed to do the most difficult and dangerous jobs. Sidi and his comrades are exploited systematically and permanently, as much by their employers as by their own countrymen who are constantly able to offer false working papers, slums where immigrants buy at high cost their right to sleep. But faced with racism and economic exploitation, immigrant workers communicate, organise...

Directed bySidney Sokhona

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 12m
Language
FR
Released
January 7, 1976
Studios
GRECComité du film ÉthnographiqueS.E.R.D.D.A.V.

Featuring

Cast & crew

8 credited
Starring
Sidney Sokhona

Sidney Sokhona

Sidi

Frank Valmont

Jacques Ruisseau

Denis Parichon

Sally N'Dongo

Constant Hames

Camara Bingourou

Bertrand Mayet

Creative team
Directed by
Sidney Sokhona
Sidney Sokhona
Written by
Sidney Sokhona
Sidney Sokhona

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