114 minutos
Famous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That's been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was formerly an Algerian pied noir. An Algerian delivers an urgent message to Pierre from a Leïla Jalal... Algiers, 1962. The Nivels live in the same apartment building as the Moslem Jalal family. Lycée student Pierre is in love with their daughter, Leïla. The civil unrest in Algeria is heating up and violence is spreading in Algiers. At school, Pierre is friends with a Moslem student, Issam, but he is made fun of for that... Pierre's jet arrives in Algiers. As a celebrity, Pierre is met on arrival by a government official, Nader Mansour. Because of the civil war raging between the government and Islamic terrorists, they drive into the city in a heavily armed convoy. Pierre does not tell Mansour his real reason for returning: Leïla has asked him to help her daughter Amina escape to safety in France.
Antoine de Caunes
Pierre Nivel
Samy Naceri
Issam
Mathilda May
Nelly Azera
Nozha Khouadra
Leila/Amina
Pierre Vaneck
Blanville
Lorànt Deutsch
Versanti
Wadeck Stanczak
Francis
Elsa Zylberstein
La femme de Pierre Nivel
Matthias Van Khache
Étienne
Dora Doll
Paula Azera
Mostéfa Stiti
Fadel
El Kebir
Le frère de Fadel
Jean-Claude de Goros
Henri Nivel, le père de Pierre Nivel
Françoise Armelle-Chiche
Adrienne Nivel, la mère de Pierre Nivel
Marie Guillard
Alexandra
François-Xavier Noah
Pierre Nivel, jeune
Raphaël Lenglet
Issam, jeune
Saïd Amadis
Nader Mansour
Daniel Saint-Hamont
Le narrateur du film
