Forrest Gump
1994 · Comedy · Drama
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Film / 2014
Heute bin ich Samba
Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.
The story
Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.
Cast
Omar SySamba Cissé
Charlotte GainsbourgAlice
Tahar RahimWalid aka Wilson
Izïa HigelinManu
Issaka SawadogoJonas Karanoto
Hélène VincentMarcelle
Youngar FallLamouna, Samba's uncle
Christiane MilletMadeleine
Jacqueline JehanneufMaggy
Liya KebedeMagali aka 'Gracieuse'
Sabine PakoraGracieuse, the salon manager
Clotilde MolletJosiane, from the interim agency
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Adel BencherifThe seller of residence cards
Jean-Michel CorreiaThe patron of the guards
Michel WinogradoffThe concierge of the hotel
Maxime d'AbovilleSamba's advocate
Nicolas BeaucaireThe gendarme in the kitchen of the 'Garde Républicaine'
Victor LoukianenkoThe Russian
Sacha PetronijevicThe Serbian
Catherine DavenierThe judge of the court
Vladys MullerA CRA policeman
Bryan PolachA CRA policeman
Roukiata OuedraogoA migrant at the association
Jean-Yves CressenvilleA CRA policeman
Raphaël ToledanoWilson's neighbor
Thierry AngelvyThe foreman of the garbage sorting plant
Eduardo SainzThe Peruvian
Sarkaw Hadi AyzeThe Tunisian translator
Jules Abel LogelA security guard
Sylvain SauletThe policeman at the portico of the CRA
Jézabel MarquesThe office secretary
Kévin WamoA detainee at the CRA
Chadia AmajodThe cleaning woman
Ali BoulabiarA migrant who dances
Habib MeftahMonsieur Bentata
Roger MartínezMan in narrowboat
Aude ZézéA migrant
Boubacar NdiayeA migrant at the association
Oumar MakalouA migrant at the association
Charles Djengue
Olivier NakacheThe Pony Club Host (uncredited)
Éric ToledanoThe bartender (uncredited)
Audrey QuoturiA passenger in the metro (uncredited)
Giorgi VarsimashviliAn immigrant (uncredited)
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