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Samba

Sometimes those with nothing have the most to lose.

2014 · 1h 58m

Directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano

6.3

TMDB audience score
1,007 votes, out of 10

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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.

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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