Samba
2015
Release Date
July 24th, 2015
Runtime
- 118 minutes
Synopsis
- 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 Sy - Samba Cissé, Charlotte Gainsbourg - Alice, Tahar Rahim - Walid aka Wilson, Izïa Higelin - Manu, Issaka Sawadogo - Jonas Karanoto, Hélène Vincent - Marcelle, Youngar Fall - Lamouna, Samba's uncle, Christiane Millet - Madeleine, Jacqueline Jehanneuf - Maggy, Liya Kebede - Magali aka 'Gracieuse', Sabine Pakora - Gracieuse, the salon manager, Clotilde Mollet - Josiane, from the interim agency, Adel Bencherif - The seller of residence cards, Jean-Michel Correia - The patron of the guards, Michel Winogradoff - The concierge of the hotel, Maxime d'Aboville - Samba's advocate, Nicolas Beaucaire - The gendarme in the kitchen of the 'Garde Républicaine', Victor Loukianenko - The Russian, Sacha Petronijevic - The Serbian, Catherine Davenier - The judge of the court, Vladys Muller - A CRA policeman, Bryan Polach - A CRA policeman, Roukiata Ouedraogo - A migrant at the association, Jean-Yves Cressenville - A CRA policeman, Raphaël Toledano - Wilson's neighbor, Thierry Angelvy - The foreman of the garbage sorting plant, Eduardo Sainz - The Peruvian, Sarkaw Hadi Ayze - The Tunisian translator, Jules Abel Logel - A security guard, Sylvain Saulet - The policeman at the portico of the CRA, Jézabel Marques - The office secretary, Kévin Wamo - A detainee at the CRA, Chadia Amajod - The cleaning woman, Ali Boulabiar - A migrant who dances, Habib Meftah - Monsieur Bentata, Roger Martínez - Man in narrowboat, Aude Zézé - A migrant, Boubacar Ndiaye - A migrant at the association, Oumar Makalou - A migrant at the association, Charles Djengue - , Olivier Nakache - The Pony Club Host (uncredited), Éric Toledano - The bartender (uncredited), Audrey Quoturi - A passenger in the metro (uncredited), George Varsimashvili - An immigrant (uncredited)