Samba
952 reviews
Drama/Comedy
1h 58m
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....
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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.
- DirectorÉric Toledano
- Release15 October 2014
- Genre
- Duration1h 58m
- Budget$20,000,000
- Revenue$151,530
- Rate952 reviews
- Productions
Ten Films, Gaumont, Quad Productions
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

Thierry Angelvy
The foreman of the garbage sorting plant

Sarkaw Hadi Ayze
The Tunisian translator

Jules Abel Logel
A security guard

Jézabel Marques
The office secretary

Chadia Amajod
The cleaning woman

Ali Boulabiar
A migrant who dances

Aude Zézé
A migrant

Olivier Nakache
The Pony Club Host (uncredited)

Éric Toledano
The bartender (uncredited)

Audrey Quoturi
A passenger in the metro (uncredited)
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