Hey Cousin! ( Salut cousin! )

Hey Cousin! (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Salut cousin!
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1996 and produced in:
Algeria ( Africa, Middle East )
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
France ( France, Benelux )
Luxembourg ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Merzak Allouache

Written By:
Merzak Allouache
Caroline Thivel

Actors:
Gad Elmaleh ..... Alilo
Messaoud Hattau ..... Mok
Magaly Berdy ..... Fatoumata
Ann-Gisel Glass ..... Laurence
Jean Benguigui ..... Maurice
Xavier Maly ..... Claude
Cheik Doukouré ..... Le voisin
Mohamed Ourdache ..... Rachid
Dalila Renault ..... Malika
Fatiha Cheriguene ..... Tante Adjia
Malek Kateb ..... Oncle Mohamed
Arno Chevrier ..... Goudrand
Mostefa Djadjam ..... Jo le barman
Faisal Attia ..... Présentateur rap
Guy Amram ..... Ghetteur

Synopsis:

The comedy in this lively film barely conceals its darker, more serious undertones as it chronicles a young Algerian's eye-opening introduction to the joys and travails of being an immigrant in Paris. Alilo has left his home to pick up an important suitcase for his employer. Unfortunately, he has lost the Parisian address. Fortunately, his cousin Mok, emigrated there several years before with his middle-class family before and is able to act as a guide. Mok, an aspiring rap singer, comes from a middle-class family, but chooses to live on his own in the dilapidated deteriorating 18th district, known as 'Moskova.' Mok characterizes the place as a haven for artists and intellectuals, but it is plainly just a Third World slum filled with tightly knit and colorful neighbors. Mok and Alilo have many interesting, some tragedy-tinged adventures over the five days it takes them to find the suitcase.

Alilo, a wide-eyed Algerian waif sent to Paris to pick up a suitcase of merchandise for his boss, is taken in by his fast-talking, rap-singing cousin Mok, who's going to show him the ropes of Parisian life. With the good-natured, pathological liar Mok as his friend, Alilo needs no enemies.

Alilo is a young Algerian who is visiting his 'beur' cousin, Mok, in Paris. He plans to make money smuggling 'haute couture' dresses back to Algeria and hopes to make contact with a supplier in Paris. He fails and falls in love with Fatoumata, a young Guinean woman whom he protects from racist attacks. Eventually he decides to stay on in Paris.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 14 January, 2010.

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