Samba

Samba

118 mins | Drama, Comedy | Oct. 15, 2014

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.

Samba

118 mins | Drama, Comedy | Oct. 15, 2014

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.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Gaumont, Quad Productions, Ten Films
Original title Samba
Directors Hervé Ruet, Christelle Meaux, Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano
Writers Delphine Coulin, Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano

Cast

Omar Sy

as Samba Cissé

Tahar Rahim

as Walid aka Wilson

Izïa Higelin

as Manu

Issaka Sawadogo

as Jonas Karanoto

Hélène Vincent

as Marcelle

Youngar Fall

as Lamouna, Samba's uncle

Christiane Millet

as Madeleine

Liya Kebede

as Magali aka 'Gracieuse'

Sabine Pakora

as Gracieuse, the salon manager

Clotilde Mollet

as Josiane, from the interim agency

Adel Bencherif

as The seller of residence cards

Jean-Michel Correia

as The patron of the guards

Michel Winogradoff

as The concierge of the hotel

Maxime d'Aboville

as Samba's advocate

Nicolas Beaucaire

as The gendarme in the kitchen of the 'Garde Républicaine'

Victor Loukianenko

as The Russian

Sacha Petronijevic

as The Serbian

Catherine Davenier

as The judge of the court

Vladys Muller

as A CRA policeman

Bryan Polach

as A CRA policeman

Roukiata Ouedraogo

as A migrant at the association

Jean-Yves Cressenville

as A CRA policeman

Raphaël Toledano

as Wilson's neighbor

Thierry Angelvy

as The foreman of the garbage sorting plant

Eduardo Sainz

as The Peruvian

Sarkaw Gorany

as The Tunisian translator

Jules Abel Logel

as A security guard

Sylvain Saulet

as The policeman at the portico of the CRA

Jézabel Marques

as The office secretary

Kévin Wamo

as A detainee at the CRA

Chadia Amajod

as The cleaning woman

Ali Boulabiar

as A migrant who dances

Habib Meftah

as Monsieur Bentata

Roger Martínez

as Man in narrowboat

Aude Zézé

as A migrant

Boubacar Ndiaye

as A migrant at the association

Oumar Makalou

as A migrant at the association

Olivier Nakache

as The Pony Club Host (uncredited)

Éric Toledano

as The bartender (uncredited)

Audrey Quoturi

as A passenger in the metro (uncredited)

George Varsimashvili

as An immigrant (uncredited)